Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Jug, red earthenware with coloured glazes, assymetrical in form, standing on a broad foot with crimped edge, with bulbous stem and bellied body, the rim fluid with an upright lip, the lower part of the handle embellished with several applied scrolls, decorated over the surface with multicoloured glazes and slips, including matt brown slip on the foot and lower handle, with a salmon pink on the body, upper handle and encircling the foot, drips of glaze, NB red, yellow and green flowing freely from the rim and down the body, incised under the glaze with a cross hatch pattern.

Simon Carroll’s unconventional approach to pottery was a celebration of imperfection. His work has been described as ‘wild and wicked’, exuberant and playful, as breaking all the rules. These deliberately unbalanced forms were assembled from wheel-thrown and press-moulded sections, then painted with coloured slips and glazes.