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Bowl
Arbeid, Dan, born 1928 - Enlarge image
Bowl
- Place of origin:
Wendens Ambo, United Kingdom (made)
- Date:
1968 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Arbeid, Dan, born 1928 (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Stoneware, coil built, with thick pitted grey glaze
- Museum number:
CIRC.838-1968
- Gallery location:
Studio Ceramics, room 142, case 2, shelf 2
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.
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