Current Location: In storage
Titles
Short Measure
Maker(s)
Production:
Slee, Richard
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
History note: Barrett Marsden Gallery, 15-18 Great Sutton Street, London ECIV ODN, from which purchased by the donors
Legal notes
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Measurements and weight
Length: 61.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2005-01-31)
by
Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
Dating
20th Century, Late
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1988
Note
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
School or Style
Contemporary Craft
Components of the work
End Of Trumpet
Diameter 25.3 cm
Materials used in production
white inside, and pale yellow glaze shading to pale greenish-blue outside
Glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
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)
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2-2005
Primary reference Number: 118397
Entry form: 618
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 20 October 2025
Last processed: Monday 20 October 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
