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Esker Vessel
Potter: Flynn, Sara
White porcelain, thrown and altered, spray glazed and polished.
Short vessel with teardrop-shaped opening at the top. The thrown vessel has been squeezed to form a sharp spine from the point of the teardrop to the base. Spray glazed inside and out to give a bronze-like surface. The underside is flat and unglazed.
History note: Erskine, Hall & Coe, 15 Royal Arcade, Old Bond Street, London, from whom bought on 23 January 2015 by Nicholas and Judith Goodison
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund
Depth: 11 cm
Height: 14 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-07-13) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth I
Production date:
circa
AD 2013
Sara Flynn (b.1971) attended Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland. Since then she has worked exclusively in porcelain since. Her vessels are thrown and then altered – by pushing pulling or cutting - at various stages of the drying process, then finished with spray glazes and polishing. She concentrates on one-off vessels which are sculptural and decorative rather than functional, produced as a result of experimentation with process and finish, form and volume. Much of her experimental work never reaches the final fired- finish stage.
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Sara Flynn studied Ceramic Design at Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork beginning her study of porcelain in her final year at college. She established her first studio in 2000 and her current studio in West Cork in 2006. She has been the recipient of a number of Design and Crafts Council of Ireland Awards and, in 2010, was the winner of a major award from Ceramics Ireland. Flynn works exclusively with porcelain, experimenting with throwing simple forms which are then altered at varying stages of the drying process to create subtle variations on the theme of the vessel. Esker is a term which refers to the striking ridged landforms found in parts of Ireland, created through fluvio-glacial deposits of sand and gravel. Sara Flynn: ‘My major preoccupations are a love of the processes of throwing, the material and the form of the vessel both as sculpture and symbolic form.’
‘Esker’ is a geological term for a long, winding ridge.
Decoration composed of glaze ( bronze-brown)
white Porcelain
Inscription present: small square potter's mark
Accession number: C.257-2015
Primary reference Number: 206891
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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