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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 142, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery

Pot with Handles

Pot
1994 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tall curved earthenware vessel with two applied handles: one vertical, one horizontal. Handbuilt from predecorated slabs. Decorated with brown leaf forms painted with coloured slips on ochre ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePot with Handles (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, handbuilt, painted with coloured slips and underglaze pigments, glazed
Brief description
Handbuilt earthenware pot, brown leaf forms painted with coloured slips on ochre ground, by Alison Britton, London, 1994
Physical description
Tall curved earthenware vessel with two applied handles: one vertical, one horizontal. Handbuilt from predecorated slabs. Decorated with brown leaf forms painted with coloured slips on ochre ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 43.3cm
  • Depth: 32.8cm
  • Width: 31cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Alison Britton 94' (Incised.)
  • 'AB3'. (Paper label.)
Object history
Selected by Oliver Watson from Britton's solo show "Form and Fiction" Neue Arbeiten', Galerie fur Englishe Keramik, Sandhausen, Germany, 11/03/1995-23/04/1995.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.74-1995

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Record createdMay 20, 2008
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