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Pk Alison Britton on Hans Coper

Pk Because when you look at it first you think it might be a cup sitting on a neck, and it's not. It goes all the way down. If it had been in various people's homes it would have had flowers in it probably, wouldn't it? I mean, Lucie would always have put flowers in his pots.

I like them more when he's playing more severely with the form, when there's more flattening or extension or something. But I own a little thistle, and some of the ones where there's an envelope that's been shut to an extreme with the points at the bottom; that's the spade one, isn't it? That may be my favourite form. But it's very, very evocative of the whole body of things.

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