Current Location: In storage
Titles
A Lady Reading
Maker(s)
Potter:
Blackman, Audrey
Entities
Categories
Description
Biscuit porcelain formed by the rolled pottery technique and decorated with flesh-toned, and thin brown slips, and black pigment. The lady sits on a stool with her left foot crossed over the right. She is reading a letter hand-written in black on both sides of a long piece of paper which she holds with both hands. She has very short black hair and wears a small round hat with a narrow upturned edge, brown shoes, and a low-necked dress with voluminous slashed sleeves, and a skirt made up of swirling strips decorated with pale brown and flesh-toned stylized floral motifs. Round the waist it has a belt made up of three oval medallions on the back and three on the front, of which the central medallion of each group is larger than the others. The figure is supported on a shallow, rounded rectangular base coated with flesh-toned slip on the top, and signed in black pigment 'A.Blackman. 1957. Op. 18.'
Legal notes
Given by the Seligman family in memory of their parents, Madron and Nancy-Joan Seligman
Measurements and weight
Depth: 13.6 cm
Height: 18 cm
Width: 20 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2013-06-10)
by
Seligman, Lincoln
Seligman, Olivia
Seligman, Roderick
Seligman, Dominic
Dating
20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
dated
AD 1957
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
ceramic pigment
( black)
slip
( pinkish flesh tone, brown)
Parts
Materials used in production
a porcelain developed specially for modelling of figures by Audrey Blackman
Porcelain
Techniques used in production
Hand-modelling
: Porcelain, hand-modelled using the rolled pottery technique, coated with pinkish flesh toned slip on the top of the base, stool, head and shoulders, arms and hands, and painted in thin brown slip (?) and black pigment
Inscription or legends present
- Text: A. Blackman. 1957. Op. 18.
- Location: On top of base
- Method of creation: Painted in black pigment
- Type: Signature and date
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3-2013
Primary reference Number: 197252
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 13 August 2013
Updated: Tuesday 16 August 2016
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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