Every KOBK object is one of one and carries its age honestly. Expect marks, wear and patina as part of the piece; any specific fault is noted above. Where an object is photographed on a stand, the stand is included.
Notes
Sylha was a Melbourne studio pottery, and the name is simply Sylvia Halpern folded into one word. Trained under Klytie Pate, Sylvia was the creative hand while her husband Artur built the kilns and ran the business, and from the early fifties they turned out slip-cast domestic ware that helped furnish mid-century Australian homes, later working out of the Potters Cottage at Warrandyte.
This ewer is from that production, marked Sylha, a confident pouring form in their house glaze. It is a piece of Melbourne's post-war studio scene, made by a woman whose name is hidden in plain sight on the base.
