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Village
Sculptural piece in the form of a stylised exotic village, red-brown stoneware, standing on a flat-topped rectangular base with curved bottom and edges, the village comprising from left to right a gateway with hinged door, an archway behind entwined with snakes and supporting a linen canopy stretched over a round-ended wooden frame and tied in place by string, to the right a meandering fence leading to a further gateway with steeply stepped roof, behind the fence and in front in a stepped well an elephant, in the gateway to the right a camel; partially covered with a green/blue glaze.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36330
Creation/Production
Alan, Heaps
Date: 1982 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 11/11/2002
Rhodd Casgliad Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, 2002
Arts Council of Wales Collection, Gifted 2002
Measurements
Height
(cm): 15.9
Width
(cm): 35.7
Depth
(cm): 13.5
Height
(in): 6
Width
(in): 14
Depth
(in): 5
Techniques
modelled
forming
Applied Art
cut
decoration
Applied Art
rolled
shaped
pierced
decoration
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
tied
sawn
Material
stoneware
wood
canvas
string
metal
glaze
Location
In store
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