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Maker: Owen, Elspeth
Hand-built clay, coloured with cobalt and vanadium and fired in salt producing a buff, greenish-grey, and pink veined and mottled surface. Bulbous, contracting towards the irregular rim.
History note: Purchased from the exhibition held at Kettles Yard, 8-22 May 1983, Thirty-Seven Potters return to Kettles Yard, Together with Strange Delights gathered by Henry Rothschild in Europe and Overseas, no. 280.
Purchased with the J. R. V. Smyth Fund and a grant from the Eastern Arts Association
Height: 10 cm
Width: 10.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1983-06-13) by Rothschild, Henry, Associates Ltd
20th Century, Late#
Production date:
circa
AD 1983
Elspeth Owen (b.1938), came to ceramics after a BA in modern history at Oxford and engagement with the Women’s Movement in the 1970s. She lives in Grantchester, near Cambridge. Elspeth produces pinched pots, each from a single ball of clay, which are then finished with subtly coloured slips, burnished, fired (sometimes with smoke) and polished.
Colouring composed of cobalt vanadium
Hand-building
: Hand-built clay, coloured with cobalt and vanadium and fired in salt producing a buff, greenish-grey, and pink veined and mottled surface.
Burnishing
Firing (heating)
Accession number: C.25-1983
Primary reference Number: 73649
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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