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Vase: tête de femme et personnage
Artist: PICASSO, Pablo
Producer: Madoura 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: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38732
Creation/Production
PICASSO, Pablo
Role: Production
Madoura Pottery
Role: Painter
Date: 1955-1960 ca –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 11/6/2007
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height: 36.5cm
diam(cm):12.7
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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