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Village
Alan Heaps
(Maker)
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.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36330
Creation/Production
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 1/4
Width
(in): 14 1/16
Depth
(in): 5 5/16
Material
Stoneware
Wood
Canvas
String
Metal
Glaze
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