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Vase: tête de femme et personnage
Vase, white terracotta, mallet-shaped with flat slightly inset base, the tall body swelling at the shoulder and tapering in to the neck, flat out-turned rim; painted in dark indigo blue in wax-resist on one side with a face depicted in angular lines wearing a laurel wreath and possibly bearded, on the other side a crudely drawn standing figure with outspread arms and possibly a tail, vertical lines around the neck, indigo blue speckling throughout the glaze.
Image: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2024/ Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38732
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 11/6/2007
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height
(cm): 36.5
diam
(cm): 12.7
Height
(in): 14
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
wax-resist
decoration
Applied Art
Material
terracotta
glaze
Location
Front Hall, South Balcony : Case H
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