Large fishes dish and tall vase by Alice Smith/Alice Shaw

The vase was described as Australian as the mark had smudged badly and the Aotearoa does look like Australia. The pattern and colours probably reinforced the presumption. 32 cm tall.
The fishes dish is 40 cm long, 24 cm wide and 4.5 cm high.

Wow to both pieces Mike !!
The vase is a familiar shape, but the decoration is unusual.
The fish are very pop art for Catherine, but I like them too.

Mike do these pieces have anyone else's name on the base besides Catherine Anselmi? I am working on a list of her decorators.

Hi Val, there is a list of the Anselmi decorators in the third post down in this topic ..

https://www.newzealandpottery.net/t2670-crown-lynn-catherine-anselmi-stamped-fruit-bowl

Sorry Val...yes there is....Alice Smith in large script in what looks like pencil. I was a little frustrated as I took the photo of the vase in portrait and couldn't get it the right way up on the post and forgot to add the base photo.

Thanks Ev and Mike.... is the fish dish Catherine's?   I have a tall cylinder vase by Pilippa Taylor. Who (I think) shows up later as Pip Gray of Tapa Nz. I left a query on her website but no reply yet. (I see that there has been a 'like' to my comment (under the name George Irwin) so that might be as close as we are going to get to a confirmation that Pip Gray/Philippa Taylor are the same person.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/craftworld-nz/vendor-profile-ceramic-artist-pip-gray/391229137674556/

The fishes dish just has the Catherine Anselmi Aotearoa NZ mark.

ta Mike. Yes Ev, they are quite pop art ish for Catherine but there you go! (Unless someone else painted but didn't sign, but she seems to have bene pretty keen on her artists all signing their work.)

Alice Smiths' mark looks alot like Alice Shaws' mark to me..
https://www.newzealandpottery.net/t5644-alice-shaw-taupaki?highlight=shaw

It certainly does look like the same writing Kat.
Perhaps one of those surnames is her married name?
These days young women keep their maiden name when they marry ....

Yes, I can confirm Alice Smith and Alice Shaw are the same person - she is a very good friend of mine and a very talented potter.