Lawson Ernest Rudge, stiletto salt pot, 1977 Pop Art studio pottery

Size:  17 cm tall.
Condition:  Very good condition, very small nibble to top rim, no other chips cracks or restoration.

This amusing salt pot in the shape of a stiletto shoe, with a foot in it, was made by Lawson Ernest Rudge in about 1977.  It is in slipcast off-white clay with a transparent glaze, fired to earthenware temperature.  On the base it has a hole with the original cork in it.
 
Lawson Rudge is best known for his raku fired animal figures, which he began making in the 1980's. This is a slightly earlier piece demonstrating the artist's whacky sense of humour. 

Lawson Ernest Rudge (1936-2026) was trained at Stourbridge Art College and then the Royal College of Art, in the same year as David Hockney. He settled in Devon with his family, where his art was informed by the rural farming world around him as well as his own fantasies and surrealist imagination. He is a specialist in raku glazes and firing, although he also experiments with other glazes in a gas kiln, sometimes firing a piece several times. Three of his children, Lawson C Rudge, Keza and Dillon, also make similar work which is sometimes confused with Lawson’s.
This piece is from Lawson's studio sale.  The moulds from which it was made have now been destroyed.