Carolein Smit — Skull with Crown, original photograph of the sculpture

Carolein Smit — Skull with Crown, Front view

Selected from a private collection

Carolein Smit

Skull with Crown

Material: Earthenware with cream and marbled blue glazes
Dimensions: H 19.8 × W 21.3 × D 29.9 cm
Title: Skull with Crown
Year: Circa 2005

Skull with Crown (circa 2005) by Carolein Smit is an earthenware sculpture with cream and marbled blue glazes. The perforated skull and ornate crown bring together intricate detail and the motif of mortality. Offered directly from a private collection; the photograph shows the actual work.

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About Carolein Smit

Carolein Smit (Amersfoort, 1960) is a Dutch sculptor whose figurative ceramics combine close observation with an unsettling imagination. She studied at St. Joost in Breda from 1979 to 1984. Animals, skeletons and human figures recur in her work, often adorned with elaborate surfaces and colourful glazes. Fairy tales, religion and old legends inform a world in which tenderness, vulnerability and mortality coexist. Minute perforations, spikes and intricate ornament make the surface an essential part of each sculpture. In 2010, Kunsthal Rotterdam presented more than sixty of her sculptures in Skin and Hair. Her exhibition history also includes Myth and Mortality at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and L’Amour Fou at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig in 2018, followed by an exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris in 2022. Her work invites sustained looking: familiar figures gradually reveal unexpected emotional and symbolic tensions.

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