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Grace Seccombe pottery kookaburra statue, incised 'Grace…
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Melbourne
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7-Dec-2021
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Grace Seccombe pottery kookaburra statue, incised 'Grace Seccombe', 16 cm high. Grace Povey Capper was born near Tunstall, north Staffordshire, England in 1880. Her father Alfred Capper, a potter, brought his family to Sydney in 1902 and established a pottery at Longueville. Later he established the Enfield Art Pottery at Enfield. In 1907 Grace married Clarence Seccombe, a Sydney architect, and encouraged by her husband, began in the 1920s to model birds. Working from a studio at Eastwood, Grace Seccombe's work was very popular, especially her models of kookaburras and koalas and they sold well through Prouds, the Sydney jewellery store. She taught Art and craft at a Sydney girls' school and exhibited with the Arts & Crafts Society of New South Wales from 1930-1955. She died in Sydney in 1956. The Morgan collection contains several of her most beloved pieces.
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Ceramics: Seccombe, Grace