PRISCILLA MOURITZEN. Vase, ceramics, own workshop, Denmark, signed.

Turned and spooned pottery. Height 47 cm.

Priscilla Mouritzen (born 1945) is an internationally renowned South Africa-born Danish artist and ceramist. For a period, 1968-78, she had her own workshop in England but since 1981 she has been active in Denmark. Her small, leafy bowls are what have made her most famous, but her large format works, clearly inspired by African tradition, have also attracted great attention.

Priscilla Mouritzen exhibits regularly, and her works can be found in museums all over the world.