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Bucket

Bucket
1995 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hand-built cylindrical bucket, the sides distorted. Decorated with drawings after the "Willow" pattern, various figures in blue, and with applied floral and photographic transfer-prints..


Object details

Object type
TitleBucket (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, slab-built, white slip, painted oxides under a transparent glaze, on-glaze transfer-prints
Brief description
Earthenware bucket with Willow pattern decoration, Philip Eglin, 1995.
Physical description
Hand-built cylindrical bucket, the sides distorted. Decorated with drawings after the "Willow" pattern, various figures in blue, and with applied floral and photographic transfer-prints..
Dimensions
  • Height: 41.3cm
  • At widest point width: 34.8cm
Object history
The pot was shown in the CAA 50th anniversary exhibition "A View of Clay" curated by Alison Britton. The bucket was originally "Not For Sale", but was made available to the museum following negotiations with the maker through CAA. Eglin considered the work to be significant and it was the first example of his "buckets".
Bibliographic reference
Philip Eglin Scotland, The Scottish Gallery : P. Eglin, 1997 no. 4
Collection
Accession number
C.108-1998

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Record createdDecember 6, 1999
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