Spade-Shaped Form, by Hans Coper

An image of Studio Ceramics. Spade-shaped Form. Coper, Hans (British, 1920-1981, Somerset, b. Germany). The pot has a cylindrical stem supporting a hollow spade form, with an indented horizontal line running round it about 2.2 cm from the top and overlapping to form two lines on one side. Stoneware, thrown, and coated with semi-matt manganese-black slip, height, whole, 16.2 cm, width, whole, 15.5 cm, diameter, foot, 5.4 cm, circa 1970-circa 1975.

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Studio Ceramics. Spade-shaped Form. Coper, Hans (British, 1920-1981, Somerset, b. Germany). The pot has a cylindrical stem supporting a hollow spade form, with an indented horizontal line running round it about 2.2 cm from the top and overlapping to form two lines on one side. Stoneware, thrown, and coated with semi-matt manganese-black slip, height, whole, 16.2 cm, width, whole, 15.5 cm, diameter, foot, 5.4 cm, circa 1970-circa 1975.

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Accession Number: C.7-2005
© Hans Coper. Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 687 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 280.41kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2007:08:22 14:44:27

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20th Century black British Fitz_AA Hans Coper hollow manganese spade stoneware studio ceramics thrown

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