Tall Cylinder Vessel, by Rupert Spira

An image of Contemporary Craft. Studio Ceramics. Tall Cylinder Vessel. Spira, Rupert (British, b. 1960). Tall cylindrical pot of pale grey stoneware with incised poem and clear, crazed glaze. Of tall, tapering cylindrical form with base recessed to produce a footring. One side is decorated with an incised poem beginning at the rim and forming a vertical rectangle approximately 62.3 cm high and 12 cm wide. Pale grey stoneware, thrown in two parts (or more?) and joined, with obvious throwing marks on the interior, incised decoration on the exterior, and clear, crazed glaze, height, whole, 77 cm, diameter, rim, 14.2 cm, diameter, base, 17.9 cm, circa 2003. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Contemporary Craft. Studio Ceramics. Tall Cylinder Vessel. Spira, Rupert (British, b. 1960). Tall cylindrical pot of pale grey stoneware with incised poem and clear, crazed glaze. Of tall, tapering cylindrical form with base recessed to produce a footring. One side is decorated with an incised poem beginning at the rim and forming a vertical rectangle approximately 62.3 cm high and 12 cm wide. Pale grey stoneware, thrown in two parts (or more?) and joined, with obvious throwing marks on the interior, incised decoration on the exterior, and clear, crazed glaze, height, whole, 77 cm, diameter, rim, 14.2 cm, diameter, base, 17.9 cm, circa 2003. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Accession Number: C.6-2005
© Rupert Spira. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 312.62kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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