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Jug
Very large stoneware jug on a round base, bulbous body, narrow slightly flared neck with pronounced rim, slightly pinched lip rising above rim, strap handle decorated with incised vertical lines at top and with arc at base, and flattened at join with body, just below start of neck. Mottled honey brown glaze, decorated on body and on upper part of neck with wide horizontal free brushstrokes and lines in a loosely Oriental style and showing the body underneath. Random blue dots in glaze. Narrow band of incised horizontal lines under neck. Dark brown glazed interior.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32634
Creation/Production
Casson, Michael
Date: 1991
Acquisition
Gift, 30/11/1995
Given by The Contemporary Art Soc for Wales
Measurements
Height
(cm): 47
Width
(cm): 32.7
Height
(in): 18
Width
(in): 13
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
salt-glaze
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
stoneware
Location
In store
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