Parenthood
Hull, Andrew
(Maker)
Stoneware, slip-cast, and hand-decorated with coloured stoneware glazes
Stoneware, slip-cast, clear-glazed inside, and hand-decorated outside with shades of blue, greyish-green, dull brownish-yellow, and shades of pale to very dark brown stoneware glazes; the underside is closed and has a glazed central rectangle with an unglazed border. The rectangular base has rounded corners and many indentations under a dark brown glaze. It supports two grotesque birds: a tall father bird who has a removable head with a large pointed beak, huge clawed feet, his right wing outstretched and his left protectively round the shoulders of his smaller offspring who has a parrot-like beak. Both are decorated with contrasting areas of the various colours. The body of the large bird has a cylindrical neck over which the hollow head is positioned.
History note: Andrew Hull Pottery
Given by Andrew Hull
Height: 31.5 cm
Width: 26 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
(2012-03-05)
by
Hull, Andrew
Early 21st Century
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2011
Andrew Hull Pottery was founded in 2007. 'Parenthood' was inspired by the Museum's Martinware owl (C.41 & A-1928), and also by a photograph of himself and his father taken in the 1970s. The model is no 8 of an edition of 30, and is one of a series of bird and animal figures in Andrew Hull's 'Character Collection'. He explains it as 'Dad keeps an eye on his son as they watch the football match. There is a bond between two through their favourite team.'
Part
composed of
glaze
stoneware
Base
Depth 12.3 cm
Width 20.3 cm
Visible Surfaces
Slip-casting : Stoneware, slip-cast and hand-decorated with shades of blue, greyish-green, dull brownish-yellow, and shades of pale to very dark brown stoneware glazes; the underside is closed and has a glazed central rectangle with an unglazed border
Inscription present: joined in capital letters
Accession number: C.2 & A-2012
Primary reference Number: 186310
Entry form: 1063
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Parenthood"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/186310 Accessed: 2022-06-26 00:23:27
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