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Cut Branch Dish
Production: Keeler, Walter
Cream earthenware, decorated with grey-blue, and yellow-brown coloured glazes
Cream earthenware, thrown, with attached branches, decorated with coloured glazes in ‘Whieldon’ style. The circular dish has a flat base and thick almost vertical sides with a curved rim, impressed with a spiral on the front. Attached to the rim are seven vertical branches formed of tubes of clay, some with projecting thorns. The interior of the dish, and the cut tops of the branches are decorated with brownish-yellow glaze with brown markings, and the rest of the surface, including the base has bluish-grey glaze with purple markings.
History note: Adrian Sassoon, 16 Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1BB from whom purchased by the donors
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the Art Fund
Method of acquisition: Given (2006-07-17) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2006
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: This exuberant dish is both a technical tour de force and a playfully impractical masterpiece of domestic pottery, drawing on Keeler’s study of eighteenth-century ceramics and his unrivalled handling of clay form. ‘Keeler’s pots possess a potent modern identity that resonates with all the richness of the English pottery tradition.’ Amanda Fielding (1957–2012), Curator, Crafts Council Collection 1989–2006 A life history interview with Walter Keeler is available at http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Crafts
Walter Keeler's pots decorated with coloured glazes are flamboyant interpretations of mid-18th century North Staffordshire tablewares made by Thomas Whieldon and other potters.
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
( brown and purple markings)
Dish
Diameter 35 cm
Height 6 cm
Tallest Branch
Height 28.7 cm
Across Branches
Width 50.5 cm
Branches
brownish-yellow, bluish-grey
Glaze
cream
Earthenware
Accession number: C.13-2006
Primary reference Number: 131290
Entry form number: 817
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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