Banana Dish, by Carol McNicoll

An image of Studio Ceramics. Banana Dish. McNicoll, Carol (British, b. 1943). Three turbaned figures in long pleated gowns standing on oval bases, holding between them a garland of grapes. The figures are decorated all over with fruiting vine in shades of greyish-green, purple, pink, and pale brown, and have narrow gold bracelets. The garland of grapes is painted underlgaze in pale green, and pinkish-purple, with transferred leaves here and there. The underside of each base is pale green. The base of one figure is titled 'BANANA/DISH' in black. Cream earthenware, slip-cast, painted underglaze in pale green and pinkish-purple, and decorated with open stock French slide on screen-printed ?transfers. Height, whole, 23.4 cm, width, whole, 32.5 cm, 1999. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Studio Ceramics. Banana Dish. McNicoll, Carol (British, b. 1943). Three turbaned figures in long pleated gowns standing on oval bases, holding between them a garland of grapes. The figures are decorated all over with fruiting vine in shades of greyish-green, purple, pink, and pale brown, and have narrow gold bracelets. The garland of grapes is painted underlgaze in pale green, and pinkish-purple, with transferred leaves here and there. The underside of each base is pale green. The base of one figure is titled 'BANANA/DISH' in black. Cream earthenware, slip-cast, painted underglaze in pale green and pinkish-purple, and decorated with open stock French slide on screen-printed ?transfers. Height, whole, 23.4 cm, width, whole, 32.5 cm, 1999. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Accession Number: C.18-1999
© Carol McNicoll. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 118.05kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1

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