Slate asymmetric vase, by Jennifer Lee

An image of Studio Ceramics. Contemporary Craft. Slate asymmetric vase. Lee, Jennifer (British, b.1956). The smooth, rounded sides rise outwards and upwards from a small flat base with a concave depression in the centre. They continue upwards and contract before widening slightly towards the rim. On one side the contraction is very slight, and on the other more extreme so that it produces a shoulder. Hand-coiled and coloured stoneware, shaded reddish-purple, buff, cream, and grey, with black speckles, coloured wtih red crocus martis (iron), red copper oxide, copper carbonate, and granular manganese dioxide, height, whole, 27.8 cm, width, whole, 12.2 cm, 1991. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Studio Ceramics. Contemporary Craft. Slate asymmetric vase. Lee, Jennifer (British, b.1956). The smooth, rounded sides rise outwards and upwards from a small flat base with a concave depression in the centre. They continue upwards and contract before widening slightly towards the rim. On one side the contraction is very slight, and on the other more extreme so that it produces a shoulder. Hand-coiled and coloured stoneware, shaded reddish-purple, buff, cream, and grey, with black speckles, coloured wtih red crocus martis (iron), red copper oxide, copper carbonate, and granular manganese dioxide, height, whole, 27.8 cm, width, whole, 12.2 cm, 1991. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Accession Number: C.17-2000
© Jennifer Lee. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 683 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 459.03kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2008:06:03 14:55:05

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