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

Bowl

1968 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dan Arbeid is an important pioneer of post-war British ceramics. He explored handbuilding techniques and surface textures in a style that strongly opposed the East Asian forms and glazes used by Bernard Leach and his followers. In the 1960s Arbeid was making daring new pots, experimenting with imaginative and inventive forms and extremes of texture. He later worked primarily as a teacher. Arbeid built up this bowl from coils of clay, which can be clearly seen in the finished pot.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, coil built, with thick pitted grey glaze
Brief description
Coil-built bowl, Dan Arbeid, 1968.
Physical description
Coil-built bowl with the thick coils clearly visible under a pitted grey glaze.
Dimensions
  • Depth: 23.60cm
  • Height: 10.00cm
Marks and inscriptions
'DA', impressed
Object history
Acquisition details: see Circ.836-1968
Summary
Dan Arbeid is an important pioneer of post-war British ceramics. He explored handbuilding techniques and surface textures in a style that strongly opposed the East Asian forms and glazes used by Bernard Leach and his followers. In the 1960s Arbeid was making daring new pots, experimenting with imaginative and inventive forms and extremes of texture. He later worked primarily as a teacher. Arbeid built up this bowl from coils of clay, which can be clearly seen in the finished pot.
Bibliographic reference
Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery : the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, Oxford : Phaidon, Christie's, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.838-1968

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2000
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