Glazed earthenwareGarden works
A cornflower blue glazed ceramic cup with a painted face of a dark-haired woman with closed eyes and red lips, a yellow shooting star on the reverse and a thick coiled black handle

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Blue Cup with Sleeping Face

AE-S-0009

Medium
Glazed earthenware
Size
approx. 28 × 21 cmMeasured on request; the label is updated when the work is measured.
Signed
Signed by the artist
Present location
In the studio, Surrey
Certificate
Numbered certificate of authenticity with every original. Verify catalogue number

About the size of a hardback book.

£980

  • Signed by Anahita
  • Numbered certificate
  • Direct from the artist
  • Collection, or careful hand-delivery in the South East, included; further afield quoted after order
Reserve for 7 days · £98

How this order is protected

  • Free insured UK delivery for paintings and works on paper

    Included in the price. Courier is fully insured and tracked; sculpture is hand-delivered by arrangement in the South East and is not sent internationally.

  • 14-day right to cancel (Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013)

    If the work is not for you, tell the studio within fourteen days of delivery and send it back within fourteen days for a full refund. You pay the direct cost of the return; for a large original the studio can quote a courier.

  • Numbered certificate of authenticity

    Every work leaves the studio with a numbered certificate stating the medium, dimensions, year and signed by Anahita in her own hand.

  • Studio collection in Surrey

    You are welcome to collect from the studio and meet the artist. Write to the studio after you order and a few times will be offered.

  • One person answers the studio inbox

    Michael reads every message and replies within two working days. If anything about the order is not right, reply to the receipt and we will fix it.

Michael replies by email with payment and delivery details. Terms of sale.

With this work

  • The signed original, one of one
  • A numbered certificate of authenticity
  • A story card in Anahita's own words
  • Its entry in the catalogue, with you recorded as its owner
  • Insured UK delivery, or collection from the studio with the artist
  • First artist's proof, free, if the work is ever made into an edition

A ten percent deposit holds the work for seven days. If you go ahead, the deposit comes off the price. If you decide not to, we return the deposit, no questions, as long as you tell us within those seven days. Arrange either through the studio. Prices are set by the studio; how work is priced.

Living with it: caring for ceramics at home; how work travels.

About this work

The face sleeps on the side of the cup: black hair, pink cheeks, red mouth, eyelids drawn in one sure black line. Behind her a yellow shooting star cuts through the sky-blue glaze. The handle is a heavy black coil, deliberately clumsy against the neatness of the drawing. It is a small, cheerful piece that belongs on a table where things are used and loved.

Provenance: the artist.

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