b'9899ARTHUR MERRIC BOYD (19201999) & NEIL DOUGLAS (19112003)stunning pottery fruit bowlwith hand-painted kangaroos in landscape,titled The Forester Of The Wallangunyah Ranges,signed Neil Douglas and incisedArthur Merric Boyd, Australia,10.5cm high, 30.5cm diameterNeil Douglas was 30 when he was conscripted into theDouglas brought a feathery fineness to his decoration of army in 1941. By 1943 he had become friends with ArthurAMB ceramics. As miniature paintings on clay, these often Boyd and by 1946 was participating in the making andpossess a deft sense of movement; a kangaroo, for example, decorating of ceramics with Boyd and John Perceval at theirbounding in quiet contrast to the stillness of the bush.Murrumbeena Pottery. Douglas became a partner of theJohn Perceval, who had met Arthur Boyd in the army in Arthur Merric Boyd (AMB) Pottery in 1950, an association1941 and married Arthurs sister, Mary, also contributed his he maintained until 1963, when Perceval also ended hisgreat skills to the output of the AMB Pottery. involvement there. Amongst other permutations (including not signing his works at all), he sometimes signed hisThe Morgan collection contains fine examples of these co-ceramics Neil Douglas AMB Australia or added his initialsoperative endeavours.ND after Arthur Merric Boyd. $2,5003,50099'