Not currently on display at the V&A

Dish

1954 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of lead glazed earthenware with a concave surface and steep sides to the foot rim, and glazed with white slip on a greenish lead glaze on the face to which is added a grey painted rectangle into which has been incised with a hedgehog with its front legs spread out.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, slip and lead glazed and incised and painted
Brief description
Dish of lead glazed earthenware with a concave surface, steep sides and glazed with white slip, made by Sigmund Pollitzer at Kerameys Pottery, Kyrenia, 1954.
Physical description
Dish of lead glazed earthenware with a concave surface and steep sides to the foot rim, and glazed with white slip on a greenish lead glaze on the face to which is added a grey painted rectangle into which has been incised with a hedgehog with its front legs spread out.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27cm
Marks and inscriptions
Signature on the front
Credit line
Given by Sigmund Pollitzer, Esq.
Object history
Part of a set of five dishes C.106 to D-1979.
A similar set was made in the same year and acquired by Sir Robert Armitage, then Governor of Cyprus, from the artist's exhibition at the British Institute in Nicosia.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.106C-1979

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Record createdNovember 19, 2008
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