Colour Saturation: Vessel in White, Black and Red, by Colin Reid

An image of Studio Glass. Contemporary Craft. Colour Saturation: Vessel in White, Black and Red. Reid, Colin (British, b.1953). Large almost-flat circular dish. The upper side a wide horzontal polished rim around a concave matt centre. The underside convex. Thin stripes of colour - red and black fading through to white - cut vertically through the otherise clear glass, such that from most directions the dish appears fully coloured. Kiln-cast glass dish, twice fired, battuto cut and polished. 2018. Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the Art Fund.

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Studio Glass. Contemporary Craft. Colour Saturation: Vessel in White, Black and Red. Reid, Colin (British, b.1953). Large almost-flat circular dish. The upper side a wide horzontal polished rim around a concave matt centre. The underside convex. Thin stripes of colour - red and black fading through to white - cut vertically through the otherise clear glass, such that from most directions the dish appears fully coloured. Kiln-cast glass dish, twice fired, battuto cut and polished. 2018. Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.14-2018
© Colin Reid. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 709 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 66.97kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1

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21st Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Copyright _WF_Goodison art glass battuto cut black British School cast glass Colin Reid Contemporary contemporary craft Fitz_AA glass kiln cast glass polished red striped stripes stripey studio glass vessel

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