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

Pin Pot

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 made daring new pots, experimenting with imaginative and inventive forms and extremes of texture. He later worked primarily as a teacher. Arbeid made this type of tall slim pot from slabs of clay, which he formed round a rolling pin and joined with a clearly visible seam.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, hand-built, with thick pitted grey glaze
Brief description
Handbuilt stoneware pot with grey pitted glaze, Dan Arbeid, 1968.
Physical description
Tall, thin stoneware pot shaped by wrapping the clay around a rolling pin, with a thick pitted grey glaze.
Dimensions
  • Depth: 8.50cm
  • Height: 35.20cm
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 made daring new pots, experimenting with imaginative and inventive forms and extremes of texture. He later worked primarily as a teacher. Arbeid made this type of tall slim pot from slabs of clay, which he formed round a rolling pin and joined with a clearly visible seam.
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.839-1968

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2000
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