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Double Pot, Brown and White

Pot
1987 (made)
Artist/Maker
Alison Britton (maker)
Place of origin
London (made)

Earthenware slab built double pot in the form of a tall spoted jug with a smaller pot attached to one side. It is hand painted with abstract slip decoration; the exterior is painted with a creamy-yellow base with white and brown linear markings, while the inner is painted with brown, cream, black and red slips.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Studio Pottery
Object type
Pot
TitleDouble Pot, Brown and White (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, slips, slab built, hand built, hand painted.
Earthenware
Slip
Hand Painted
Hand Built
Brief description
'Double Pot, Brown and White', earthenware, Alison Britton, London, 1987
Physical description
Earthenware slab built double pot in the form of a tall spoted jug with a smaller pot attached to one side. It is hand painted with abstract slip decoration; the exterior is painted with a creamy-yellow base with white and brown linear markings, while the inner is painted with brown, cream, black and red slips.
Dimensions
  • Height: 37.1cm
  • Width: 41.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
‘Alison Britton / 87’, incised (Maker's mark)
Credit line
Gift of Ed Wolf
Object history
Shown in solo exhibition at Contemporary Applied Arts, 1987.
SHown in Parnham House exhibition, Dorset, 1987.
Bought from Alison Britton by Ed Wolf in 1987.
Bibliographic references
  • Illustrated in Liberation of the Jug, Oliver Watson, Crafts Arts (Australia) no 12, 1988.
  • Illustrated in Tanya Harrod monograph 1990 p.50
  • The Ed Wolf Collection of Alison Britton Pots (sales catalogue), p.66.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.249-1914

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Record createdSeptember 9, 2014
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1300075/double-pot-brown-and-white-pot-alison-britton/
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