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Seaworn Jar
Potter: Eastop, Geoffrey
Thrown reduced stoneware, decorated with greenish-grey slip, and semi-matt glaze
Grey stoneware, thrown, decorated with slip, and semi-matt glaze, and fired. Of inverted baluster form with a short cleft on the handle side; short cylindrical neck with vertical rim, and semi-circular, upward-sloping spout, higher on one side than the other; and horizontal loop handle over the cleft in the body. The jar is decorated with an approximately circular area of greenish-grey mottled slip round the handle, and another echoing the shape of the vessel down the front.
History note: The Bohun Gallery, 13 Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, from which purchased
Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and a grant from Eastern Arts Association
Height: 42 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1980-10-13) by The Bohun Gallery
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1980
Geoffrey Eastop (1921– 2014) studied at the Croydon School of Art and Goldsmiths' College. From 1956-62, he worked with Alan Caiger-Smith at Aldermaston Pottery, then started his own pottery in south Berkshire. He worked at Fawley Bottom between 1969 and 1984, often collaborating with the artist John Piper.
Decoration
composed of
slip
Base
Diameter 14 cm
oxidised Stoneware
Throwing : Grey stoneware, thrown, decorated with slip, and semi-matt glaze, and reduction fired
Inscription present: if upside down looks like a 5 with a cross through it
Accession number: C.15-1980
Primary reference Number: 72147
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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