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Green and Brown Pot

Pot and Cover
1996-1998 (made)
Artist/Maker
Alison Britton (maker)
Place of origin
London (made)

Tall earthenware pot with handle painted with coloured slips, the base is green with abstract decoration and abstract leaves in black and red. The lid is wood and painted yellow, pink, red and black.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Studio Pottery
Object type
Pot and cover
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Pot
  • Cover
Titles
  • Green and Brown Pot (assigned by artist)
  • Green Pot with Raised Handle (alternative title)
  • Green Pot with Lid (alternative title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, hand built, slap built, slip, hand painted
Earthenware
Earthenware
Slip
Paint
Hand Built
Hand Painted
Brief description
'Green and Brown Pot', earthenware, Alison Britton, London, 1996
Physical description
Tall earthenware pot with handle painted with coloured slips, the base is green with abstract decoration and abstract leaves in black and red. The lid is wood and painted yellow, pink, red and black.
Dimensions
  • Pot with lid height: 51cm
  • Pot without lid height: 45cm
  • Width: 34cm
Marks and inscriptions
‘Alison Britton / 1996’, incised (Maker's mark)
Credit line
Gift of Ed Wolf
Object history
Shown by Indigo Gallery at SOFA Chicago, November 1996. Selling price £2100. Shown in joint exhibition with Gordon Baldwin at Galerie Sarver, Paris, June 1997. Repainted and re-fired in 1998 by Alison Britton and wooden lid by Bryan Illsley added. Shown in solo exhibition at Barrett Marsden Gallery, London, September 1998. Bought by Ed Wolf from Alison Britton in March 1999. Shown in the exhibition New Work by Alison Britton and The Ed Wolf Collection of Alsion Britton Pots, at Barrett Marsden Gallery, London, 16 June - 30 July 2005.
Bibliographic reference
The Ed Wolf Collection of Alison Britton Pots. London: Barrett Marsden Gallery, 2005. p. 118.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.255:1,2-2014

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Record createdSeptember 9, 2014
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1300082/green-and-brown-pot-pot-and-cover-alison-britton/
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