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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Betty Woodman is one of the best-known and most highly respected ceramic artists. From one viewpoint 'Diptych: The Balcony' appears as two vases of flowers. The other side evokes an inviting view from a Mediterranean balcony, the vibrant glossy colours of a sunny garden contrasting with a matt white balustrade.
Pair of large vessels, glazed and painted earthenware, each vessel cylindrical with a flat irregularly shaped panel applied to the back; each vessel painted on one side as a flower vase with flowers sketched in black on matt white slip in the upper section above the richly coloured and glazed lower section, this lower section used as a field on which are depicted further vessels which run off the cylinder and onto the flat backing section, on the other side the two elements painted to suggest a view from a balcony with a balustrade in matt white slip in the foreground and a background of vibrantly glossy colours suggesting flowers and a garden.
