Ewen Henderson

Hope you had good provenance on this one Ed.
I must admit to setting myself a spending limit on Ebay. There is just so much you can tell from a photo. Especially with a potter who does not mark his work.
For a substantial amount of money,there is everything to be said for feeling and looking at it in your hand/.

As a footnote its worthwhile finding a copy of the Exhibition catalogue of PANDORA'S BOX which Ewen Henderson curated,and which there is a interview with him by David Whiting.

Ewan Henderson was always somewhat of a maverick in Post war British studio pottery. Perhaps because he came to potting late. at the age of 30, starting. Interestingly, he started at Camberwell in 1965, when both Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were teaching there. So he has often been put in that group of Lucie Rie and her pupils. Yet superficially his work is nothing like Rie or Coper's.
But both Coper and Rie were modernist potters, and Henderson is as well. Henderson's pots have always been different though. His early pots were rough and pitted or had cracks in the rims. Always experimenting he used layers of stoneware and porcelain, then using different types of stoneware clay. Which technically was darn difficult. He then slowly changed again slowly, until his pots looked more like sections of a mountain range than vessels.
He is an absolutely fascinating potter. As you say, that piece works well with an abstract painting. I would love to see it next to a Mary Rogers or Liz Fritsch. Those very controlled ceramic artists.
Personally I have not any of his work. He has always been a little pricey for my pocket. I wish I did!

Are they popular because they are more of a conventional form? Lets face it, the last thing they would be used for is drinking tea Equally of course his large constructions being hand built with much intricate complex work were very time consuming. The (tea!) bowls were a easier way to supply a market of growing collectors.