Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot

Thomas, Gwilym (Maker)

Tall cream-coloured stoneware pot, standing on a spreading foot, slender, ovoid body, narrowing at the shoulders into a long narrow neck ending in a wide upright rim. Deep sgraffito decoration of elongated ovoid shapes, the outer margins cross hatched and stained with iron and copper oxides.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 34352

Creation/Production

1931 scholarship to Swansea School of Art 1935-38 Royal College of Art, London - studied under William Staite Murray 1937-38 taught evening classes for the LCC at Putney School of Art 1939 taught in boys' clubs in London's East End 1946 part-time teaching, Bromley School of Art (to 1949) and Maidstone School of Art 1951 part-time teaching, Hammersmith College of Art 1956 moved to Orpington, Kent; built pottery studio with 24 cu. ft. gas kiln for reduced firings 1970 exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute, London 1973 full-time Head of Ceramics, Hammersmith College of Art 1975 retired from full-time teaching Author of 'Step to Step Guide to Pottery' (Hamlyn)
Role: Production
Role: Maker
Place: Orpington, Kent
Period: 1965 ca

Acquisition

Purchase, 6/9/1999

Measurements

Height (cm): 71
diam (cm): 13.3
Height (in): 27
diam (in): 5

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Sgraffito
Decoration
Applied Art
Painted
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Stoneware
Metal oxides

Location

In store
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