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Blue and White Tilted Pot

Pot
1990 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Earthenware hand built tilted pot of cylindrical form with long footed spout with raises and tilts the pot. The pot is painted with coloured slips, the exterior has a cream-white base with abstract linear decoration in blue and black, the inside of the pot is painted mostly blue with some brown-red linear decoration.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBlue and White Tilted Pot (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, hand built, slap built, slip, hand painted
Brief description
'Blue and White Tilted Pot', earthenware with coloured slips, Alison Britton, London, 1990
Physical description
Earthenware hand built tilted pot of cylindrical form with long footed spout with raises and tilts the pot. The pot is painted with coloured slips, the exterior has a cream-white base with abstract linear decoration in blue and black, the inside of the pot is painted mostly blue with some brown-red linear decoration.
Dimensions
  • Height: 32cm
  • Width: 36.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
‘Alison Britton 90’, incised
Credit line
Gift of Ed Wolf
Object history
One of nine new pieces made for retrospective, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and tour 1990-2.
Ed Wolf bought from Alison Britton in 1990.
Bibliographic reference
The Ed Wolf Collection of Alison Britton Pots.
Collection
Accession number
C.253-2014

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Record createdSeptember 9, 2014
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