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Short Measure
Production: Slee, Richard
Hand-built earthenware, the inside covered with white glaze, and the outside with pale yellow glaze shading to pale greenish-blue. The object has a globular lower end with sixteen ribs from which extends a fluted trumpet, the mouth of which has thirteen bats' wing scallops of irregular size. When lying down, it rests on two of the points.
History note: Barrett Marsden Gallery, 15-18 Great Sutton Street, London ECIV ODN, from which purchased by the donors
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Length: 61.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2005-01-31) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1988
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: This work comes from a series that Richard Slee has retrospectively titled ‘Little England’. The title of this particular piece refers to the popular drinking-glass form called a ‘yard of ale’. This exaggerated thirty-six inch conical vessel is thought to have originated in seventeenth-century England both as a demonstration of the glassblower’s art and for drinking feats and special toasts. In 1998, Slee’s kiln was too short to create a fulllength ceramic version, hence the title. The work is illustrated on page 96 of the monograph on Slee by Garth Clark and Cathy Courtney published by Lund Humphries in 2003. A life history interview with Richard Slee is available at http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Crafts
The form resembles a yard of ale glass
End Of Trumpet Diameter 25.3 cm
white inside, and pale yellow glaze shading to pale greenish-blue outside
Glaze
Earthenware
Hand-built
: Hand-built earthenware, the inside covered with white glaze, and the outside with pale yellow glaze shading to pale greenish-blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.2-2005
Primary reference Number: 118397
Entry form: 618
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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