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Vase: tête de femme et personnage

PICASSO, Pablo (Pottery)
Madoura Pottery (Pottery)

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 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 38732

Creation/Production

PICASSO, Pablo
Madoura Pottery

1955-1960 / 1955-1960

Role: Production
Role: Painter
Role: Production
Role: Pottery
Period: 1955-1960

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 3/8
diam (in): 5

Material

Terracotta
Glaze

Categories

Artist ceramics Ceramics Applied Art French earthenware Continental earthenware Earthenware Ceramics Applied Art White Blue Face Person Foliage CADP content CADP random
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