Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Small Bowl with Fabulous Beast

Bowl, red terracotta, hand-built conical form; decorated inside with a four-legged fabulous beast of surreal form incised through a layer of cream slip, to its left a five-pointed star incised within a roughly circular form.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39547

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Artist
Role: Potter
Place: New York
Period: 1945 ca

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 24/6/2014

Measurements

Height (cm): 5.8
diam (cm): 16.2
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 6

Techniques

Hand-built
Forming
Applied Art
Coiled
Forming
Applied Art
Slip-coated
Decoration
Applied Art
Incised
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Terracotta
Slip

Location

On Display

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