Ming #1

Date
2004

Material
Porcelain, PVC

Dimensions
H40cm (H16in)

Edition
500

The Ming#1 Vase is a seminal product in the creation of Fredrikson Stallard, bringing together the artists for the first time.

‘What keeps everyone watching Fredrikson Stallard’s work is the intelligence it manifests, like the early series of vases that riffed on thousands of years of design history, with a three-dimensional dragon popping out of the top, say, or visible structural bolts connecting a seam that most ceramics keep hidden.

”Their thinking was beyond clever,” retail extraordinaire Murray Moss says of their ceramics. ”It was revisionist.” This ability, demonstrated early on and still evident in their work, to stay one step ahead but with an eye on the past will keep these two in play over the long haul.’