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Hughes, Edward (potter)
(Potter)
Stoneware, thrown, carved with vertical fluting, and covered with dark brown tenmoku glaze, probably over iron-bearing slip; base unglazed. Ovoid body with short neck expanding towards the rim which is pinched at the front to form a lip; loop handle with vertical ridge. The rim, the edges of the flutes, and the ridge on the handle are red-brown and the rest dark brown.
History note: Purchased from the potter by the donor
Given by Ian Lowe in memory of the maker
Height: 16 cm
Width: 17.2 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(2006-10-09)
by
Lowe, Ian
Late 20th Century
Elizabeth II
Circa
1984
CE
-
1989
CE
Decoration composed of glaze slip Body Exterior And Interio
Accession number: C.34-2006
Primary reference Number: 134005
Entry form: 823
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
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