Polar Bear: C.8-1979

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Polar Bear

Maker(s)

Potter: Blackman, Audrey

Entities

Categories

Stoneware

Description

Stoneware, rolled and draped with combed decoration, the base, dabbed with greyish-blue

Off-white stoneware, rolled and draped, with combed decoration. The bear stands with its right front leg forward, and left hind leg forward, all four paws on the roughly oval base. Its neck is stretched forward, and its tail is between its hind legs, and curved under its belly to meet its left front leg. The body is hollow. The base is dabbed with greyish-blue slip. The whole stands on a separate shallow wooden base.

Legal notes

Given by Mrs Audrey Blackman

Measurements and weight

Height: 10.8 cm
Length: 24.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1979-07-16) by Blackman, Audrey, Mrs

Dating

20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date: AD 1963 : dated

School or Style

Studio Ceramics

Components of the work

Decoration
Part

Inscription or legends present

Text: A.Blackman./Op.10.1963
Location: On top of base
Method of creation: Incised
Type: Signature

Text: Polar Bear/Stoneware
Location: On underside of base
Method of creation: Hand-written in black
Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

Rolled Pottery Figures page(s): 63

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.8-1979
Primary reference Number: 76170
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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