Tall Ellipse in Deep Reds, by Nicholas Rena

An image of Tall Ellipse in Deep Reds. Rena, Nicholas (British, b. 1963). Tall elliptical vessel with straight sides and thick walls. The upper rim is perfectly flat. The outside and much of the inside is burnished to an exceptionally smooth finish and stained red-brown; the stain is applied unevenly, giving an organic appearance. The underside is flat, burnished and stained. Earthenware, press moulded, sanded and burnished, stained, heigth 43 cm, width 19.4 cm, depth 10 cm, c. 2000. Acquisition Credit: Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund.

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Tall Ellipse in Deep Reds. Rena, Nicholas (British, b. 1963). Tall elliptical vessel with straight sides and thick walls. The upper rim is perfectly flat. The outside and much of the inside is burnished to an exceptionally smooth finish and stained red-brown; the stain is applied unevenly, giving an organic appearance. The underside is flat, burnished and stained. Earthenware, press moulded, sanded and burnished, stained, heigth 43 cm, width 19.4 cm, depth 10 cm, c. 2000. Acquisition Credit: Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.3-2017
© Nicholas Rena. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1377 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 64.25kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2017:02:20 14:04:08

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20th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_ArtFund _WF_Goodison _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC British burnished earthenware eliptical elliptical Fitz_AA moulded Nicholas Rena press moulded studio ceramics tall vessel

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