Potter: Auld, Ian
Stoneware, slab and hand built, and covered with creamy-white to buff matt glaze. Square body with a tall, narrow cylindircal neck, and a pared down rim. The square body is heavily textured, covered all over except for the base with a creamy-white to buff matt glaze, which has run from the sharp edges. The lower parts of all four sides are stained with splashes of rust-brown, from which the glaze has receded
History note: Charles Handley-Read Collection
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 40 cm
Width: 9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1972-06-13) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Third quarter of 20th Century
Elizabeth II
Circa
1960
-
1970
Exterior
creamy-white to buff matt overall except for base
Glaze
Stoneware
Slab-building
: Buff stoneware, slab- and hand-built, and covered with creamy-white to buff matt glaze, except for the base
Hand-forming
Inscription present: impressed rectangular seal with IA
Accession number: C.38-1972
Primary reference Number: 74739
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74739 Accessed: 2023-06-03 18:55:57
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74739
|title=Bottle
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 18:55:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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