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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

1982 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stoneware plate, circular with gently curving sides that rise in graduated moulded rings, cream body with an irregular, mottled decoration of cream shapes on a light blue background. The centre of the plate is glazed.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with mottled decoration and partly glazed
Brief description
Plate of 'Cirrus pattern' and 'Concept' shape, stoneware with mottled decoration and partly glazed, made by Hornsea Pottery, England, 1982.
Physical description
Stoneware plate, circular with gently curving sides that rise in graduated moulded rings, cream body with an irregular, mottled decoration of cream shapes on a light blue background. The centre of the plate is glazed.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 15.7cm
  • Height: 2.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'CIRRUS, OVEN TO TABLEWARE, HORNSEA ENGLAND, DISHWASHER, FREEZER & MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE' (Printed in cream)
  • An intertwined pair of doves (Printed in cream)
Credit line
Given by the maker
Production
Attribution note: Note dictated by Martin Hunt (19.7.1981) on the technique used at Hornsea to decorate the Concept range in the cirrus pattern.

The decorative technique consists of an impregnation of the raw clay plate in a soluble metal salt, in this case cobalt chloride. While still moist the plate rim is splattered with wax from a spray gun and the wax in preventing the salt solution from drying causes a migration of colour to the edges of each blob. The centre of the plate is undecorated and coated with a clear glaze.

Source: From the register
Collection
Accession number
C.346B-1983

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Record createdOctober 15, 2008
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