# Peter Shire artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-11T03:22:00.664Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1947-12-27
- Nationality: American
- Common media: sculpture, ceramics, furniture design

## About Peter Shire

Peter Shire is an American sculptor, ceramist, and designer born on December 27, 1947, in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, where he continues to live and work. Active across sculpture, ceramics, and furniture, Shire has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, with presentations in Italy, France, Japan, and Poland. His practice bridges fine-art sculpture and functional design, making his work relevant to collectors in both the contemporary art and modern design markets. Shire's public commissions include a sculpture in Los Angeles' Elysian Park. He is listed in the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Library of Congress Name Authority File, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.

## Common works and media

Shire is best known for ceramics—including vessels, teapots, and glazed sculptural forms—as well as freestanding sculpture and furniture designs. Collectors may encounter individual ceramic pieces, limited furniture editions, mixed-media sculptures, and public or gallery-scale installations. Works range from tabletop ceramic objects to larger sculptural commissions.

## Market and appraisal context

Peter Shire's work appears at auction across ceramics, sculptural furniture, and freestanding sculpture categories. Collectors should consider medium, dimensions, date of execution, condition, provenance, and any documented exhibition or publication history when evaluating a Shire work. His multi-decade career and cross-disciplinary output mean that comparable sale records vary significantly by medium and period. Specific auction results and lot-by-lot comparables should be reviewed for any appraisal, as broad price generalizations are unreliable without reference to individual work characteristics.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from museum, library-authority, and scholarly sources with available auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Peter Shire, identity data is grounded in the Getty ULAN, Library of Congress, VIAF, RKD, and Wikidata records. Market context draws on Appraisily and Invaluable auction-lot data when those records are available.

## Sources

- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88644536
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020528
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/193313333/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/329704
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7176913
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shire