Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Optical Bowl with Fractured Rim

Bowl, stoneware painted with white and coloured slips, flattened elliptical shape with flat base, the sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the rim higher at the back and shaped to give the illusion of a fully rounded bowl; the whole of the exterior except the base overlaid with a speckled white slip, a band round the rim and the top edge painted in coloured slips (white, dark green, pale greeny-blue, pale blue, rusty brown breaking to orange/ochre, buff) in angled strips to give the effect of fractured faultlines.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39271

Creation/Production

Fritsch, Elizabeth
Date: 1974

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of Art Fund & DWT, 2/6/2011
Purchased with support from The Art Fund and The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 13.6
Width (cm): 24.6
Depth (cm): 5
Height (in): 5
Width (in): 9
Depth (in): 2

Techniques

hand-built
forming
Applied Art
coiled
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art

Material

stoneware
slip

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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