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.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39271

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Maker
Place: Digswell House, Hertfordshire
Period: 1974

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of Art Fund & DWT, 2/6/2011

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

On Display

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