Small flask, by Peter Hayes

An image of Studio Ceramics. Small flask. Hayes, Peter (British, b.1946). Small but tall hollow flask with narrow elliptical base, rising with straight sides and flattened at the top to a wide horizontal-line shoulder supporting a small central neck with open rim. Surface coated with red-brown slip incised with an abstract texture like wood that has begun to split with age. Burnished to a shiny finish which the firing process has shaded from mid to dark. Designed to stand upright. Hand-built clay, slip coated, decorated with incised pattern, burnished and fired. Height 19.5 cm, width 10.5 cm, depth 5.5 cm, 1994.

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Studio Ceramics. Small flask. Hayes, Peter (British, b.1946). Small but tall hollow flask with narrow elliptical base, rising with straight sides and flattened at the top to a wide horizontal-line shoulder supporting a small central neck with open rim. Surface coated with red-brown slip incised with an abstract texture like wood that has begun to split with age. Burnished to a shiny finish which the firing process has shaded from mid to dark. Designed to stand upright. Hand-built clay, slip coated, decorated with incised pattern, burnished and fired. Height 19.5 cm, width 10.5 cm, depth 5.5 cm, 1994.

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Accession Number: C.16-2018
© Peter Hayes. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
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: 517.02kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2019:01:29 13:25:51

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20th Century _WF_Copyright art pottery British School burnished burnishing clay fired Fitz_AA flask hand built hand formed incised Peter Hayes pottery slip slip-coated slipware studio ceramics studio pottery vessel

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