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Optical Bowl with Fractured Rim
Bowl, stoneware painted with white and coloured slips, flattened elliptical shape with flat base, the sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the rim higher at the back and shaped to give the illusion of a fully rounded bowl; the whole of the exterior except the base overlaid with a speckled white slip, a band round the rim and the top edge painted in coloured slips (white, dark green, pale greeny-blue, pale blue, rusty brown breaking to orange/ochre, buff) in angled strips to give the effect of fractured faultlines.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39271
Creation/Production
Fritsch, Elizabeth
Date: 1974
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of Art Fund & DWT, 2/6/2011
Purchased with support from The Art Fund and The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13.6
Width
(cm): 24.6
Depth
(cm): 5
Height
(in): 5
Width
(in): 9
Depth
(in): 2
Techniques
hand-built
forming
Applied Art
coiled
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
Material
stoneware
slip
Location
Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I
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