IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73225 accession number: C.22 & A-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Coarse buff stoneware, thrown and turned, . Hemispherical body on a small low foot, with a pagoda-shaped cover. The exterior is covered with a semi-transparent grey-green glaze, which has been covered with a purplish-brown glaze. The sgraffito decoration has been incised through the upper lay of glaze to reveal the lower layer. The cover has been coated on the exterior with the same two layers of glaze. The interiors of both lid and bowl, except the fitted rims, and the underneath of the foot, have been covered with the grey-green glaze. The incised decoration comprises a vand of vertical lines around the body, interrupted by three motifs formed by comma-like lines, between horizontal bands. The glaze, particularly on the lid has a lustrous quality object type: thrown and turned stoneware with brown glaze and sgraffito or incised decoration title: pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Charles Handley-Read Collection LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73225 TECHNIQUES ---------- turning TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1960 - 1965 creation date earliest: 1960 creation date latest: 1965 culture: 20th Century, third quarter culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Leach, Bernard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.5 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Artist Potters in England An Exhibition of the Art of Bernard Leach, His Masterpieces Loaned by British Museums and Collectors Contemporary Ceramics Bernard Leach - 50 Years a Potter British Studio Pottery, the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection Bernard Leach, Hamada and their Circle from the Wingfield Digby Collection ---