Stoneware beaker, by Edward Hughes

An image of Studio Ceramics. Beaker. Hughes, Edward (British, 1953-2006). Of truncated conical form with wrythen fluting on the exterior. Buff stoneware, thrown, carved with wrythen fluting, and covered with dark brown tenmoku glaze, probably over iron-bearing slip; base unglazed. Height, whole, 8.8 cm, diameter, rim, 8.1 cm, circa 1988-1989. In 1989 Hughes moved his workshop from Renwick to Isel Hall, Cumbria.

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Studio Ceramics. Beaker. Hughes, Edward (British, 1953-2006). Of truncated conical form with wrythen fluting on the exterior. Buff stoneware, thrown, carved with wrythen fluting, and covered with dark brown tenmoku glaze, probably over iron-bearing slip; base unglazed. Height, whole, 8.8 cm, diameter, rim, 8.1 cm, circa 1988-1989. In 1989 Hughes moved his workshop from Renwick to Isel Hall, Cumbria.

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Accession Number: C.36-2006
© The estate of Edward Hughes. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 381.01kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1

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20th Century _WF_Copyright art pottery beaker British School brown conical Edward Hughes Fitz_AA fluted fluting glazed pottery ribbed ribbing slip slipware stoneware studio ceramics studio pottery tenmoku glaze thrown vessel wrythen ribbing

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