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Going Down Slow: C.21-2002

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Going Down Slow

Maker(s)

Potter: Heinz, Regina

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Description

Bag-shaped ceramic form, stoneware decorated with lithium glaze, coloured slips and oxides with a grid pattern

Stoneware, hand-built, squashed, fired to biscuit, and decorated with lithium glaze, coloured slips and oxides. Shaped like a shopping bag which has fallen over. Decorated on both sides with a grid pattern outlined in pale brown, and spattered with blue, with a yellow button or sun at the top.

Notes

History note: Purchased by the donors from Regina Heinz, The Business Village, Studio 213E Broomhill Road, London, SW18 4JQ.

Legal notes

Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 12.7 cm
Length: 40.7 cm
Width: 38 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2002-11-25) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith

Dating

21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date: AD 2002

Note

For Heinz's technique, see Documentation, Ceramic Review (1999), and (2006)

School or Style

Contemporary Craft
Studio Ceramics

Components of the work

Decoration composed of oxide colours lithium glaze slip

Materials used in production

Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Hand-forming : Stoneware, hand-built, squashed, fired to biscuit, and decorated with lithium glaze, coloured slips, and oxides.

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.21-2002
Primary reference Number: 82290
Entry form: 178

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 25 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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