Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Vase: Water of Greenness

Vase, stoneware, upright form standing on an elongated rhomboid base, vertical sides curving in towards the near-rectangular rim; the whole painted inside and out with a ground of matt blue-green slip, this overlaid on the front and shoulders with a pattern of green zigzags (diagonally top left to bottom right) modified and compressed as it moves anti-clockwise round the form, this pattern in turn overlaid with a pattern of particles rising in opposing diagonals (bottom left to top right), each particle comprising an upright blue rectangle surmounted by a yellow ochre rhomboid, a circular green moon form on the reverse, a yellow ochre line round the rim.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39103

Creation/Production

Fritsch, Elizabeth
Date: 2008

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT and Art Fund, 13/7/2009
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust and The Art Fund

Measurements

Height (cm): 34.5
Width (cm): 25.7
Depth (cm): 7
Height (in): 13
Width (in): 10
Depth (in): 2

Techniques

hand-built
forming
Applied Art

Material

stoneware
slip

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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