Blue Ceremonial (oval bowl), by Judy Trim

An image of Contemporary Craft. Studio Ceramics. Blue Ceremonial (oval bowl). Trim, Judy (British, 1943-2001). Oval, with a wide slightly everted rim, and deep sloping sides, standing on a narrow oval base. In the centre there is an oval blue frame enclosing a six-sided figure chequered in blue and platinum surrounded by various geometrical shapes in dark grey and platinum. This is surrounded by a dark grey crenellated border. The sides have a blue ground decorated with forty-eight 'arrows' each composed of four separate chevrons of graduated size, the smallest nearest to the centre. The rim is divided into twelve panels filled with different geometrical motifs in all three colours. Coiled earthenware, slip-coated, burnished, and decorated in iridescent-blue, dark grey and platinum lustre with a geometrical pattern; reverse unglazed with numerous striations. Fired twenty times or more. Height, whole, 12.5 cm, width, whole, 54.1 cm, length, whole, 62.4 cm, length, foot, 5.2 cm, width, foot, 3.5 cm, circa 1989-1990. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Contemporary Craft. Studio Ceramics. Blue Ceremonial (oval bowl). Trim, Judy (British, 1943-2001). Oval, with a wide slightly everted rim, and deep sloping sides, standing on a narrow oval base. In the centre there is an oval blue frame enclosing a six-sided figure chequered in blue and platinum surrounded by various geometrical shapes in dark grey and platinum. This is surrounded by a dark grey crenellated border. The sides have a blue ground decorated with forty-eight 'arrows' each composed of four separate chevrons of graduated size, the smallest nearest to the centre. The rim is divided into twelve panels filled with different geometrical motifs in all three colours. Coiled earthenware, slip-coated, burnished, and decorated in iridescent-blue, dark grey and platinum lustre with a geometrical pattern; reverse unglazed with numerous striations. Fired twenty times or more. Height, whole, 12.5 cm, width, whole, 54.1 cm, length, whole, 62.4 cm, length, foot, 5.2 cm, width, foot, 3.5 cm, circa 1989-1990. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Accession Number: C.3-2000
© The estate of Judy Trim. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
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: 129.24kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1

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