Hans Coper

Hans Coper (8 April 1920[1] – 16 June 1981) was an influential German-born British studio potter.

He made a small group of Figures in the fifties, which were not vessels and were never put on sale (see Tony Birks).

He was interned as an enemy alien, and held in Canada for two years; on return to Britain in 1942, he served as a conscientious objector in the Non-Combatant Corps.

Coper would characteristically throw his work on the potter's wheel, then alter and assemble pieces by hand to achieve the finished form.

His distinctive pots take on recognizable "forms" he termed Spade, Bud, Cup, Egg, Flower and Arrow.