Stoneware dish, by Edward Hughes

An image of Studio Ceramics. Dish. Hughes, Edward (British, 1953-2006). Circular with curved sides and narrow upturned sloping rim, standing on a footring. The ground is variegated shades of brown, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown on both sides. The front (interior) is slip-trailed in reddish-brown with pairs of lines, wavy lines, and small spirals, and there are areas of gold speckles here and there. The base is decorated in reddish-brown with trellis pattern, and on the ouside of the sides there are six fish-shapes, each filled with a wavy line and spots. In the centre of the base there is a small unglazed area. Stoneware, slip-decorated, glazed, and reduction-fired, height, whole, 7.9 cm, diameter, whoe, 50.1 cm, 1997.

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Studio Ceramics. Dish. Hughes, Edward (British, 1953-2006). Circular with curved sides and narrow upturned sloping rim, standing on a footring. The ground is variegated shades of brown, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown on both sides. The front (interior) is slip-trailed in reddish-brown with pairs of lines, wavy lines, and small spirals, and there are areas of gold speckles here and there. The base is decorated in reddish-brown with trellis pattern, and on the ouside of the sides there are six fish-shapes, each filled with a wavy line and spots. In the centre of the base there is a small unglazed area. Stoneware, slip-decorated, glazed, and reduction-fired, height, whole, 7.9 cm, diameter, whoe, 50.1 cm, 1997.

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Accession Number: C.70-1997
© The estate of Edward Hughes. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 117.40kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 19/1

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20th Century _WF_Copyright art pottery British School brown circular dish Edward Hughes fired Fitz_AA glazed linear lines pottery round slip trailed slipware stoneware studio ceramics studio pottery trailed waves wavy wavy lines

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