Fish
Dish
1984 (made)
1984 (made)
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Dish, once-fired in a coal-burning tunnel kiln, for 32 hours, at temperatures reading 1200-1300 degree Celsius. Design of a fish skeleton and three smaller fish carved into the biscuit-fired body, then a base layer of black glaze, then cobalt blue sprinkled onto the thickest area and allowed to run. Different densities of glaze give brown, blue and white effects.
The maker's intentions behind creating the piece were to achieve a certain archaic flavour while using contemporary ceramic technological skills, to forge together in the fire an impression of water and an impression of skeletal fossils, and thereby to create an exciting temporal dimension at once eternal and fresh.
Box: Notes by maker in register.
The maker's intentions behind creating the piece were to achieve a certain archaic flavour while using contemporary ceramic technological skills, to forge together in the fire an impression of water and an impression of skeletal fossils, and thereby to create an exciting temporal dimension at once eternal and fresh.
Box: Notes by maker in register.
Object details
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| Title | Fish (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with coloured glazes |
| Brief description | 'Fish' dish, stoneware with coloured glazes, made by Qu Leilei, China (Zibo, Shangdong province), 1984 |
| Physical description | Dish, once-fired in a coal-burning tunnel kiln, for 32 hours, at temperatures reading 1200-1300 degree Celsius. Design of a fish skeleton and three smaller fish carved into the biscuit-fired body, then a base layer of black glaze, then cobalt blue sprinkled onto the thickest area and allowed to run. Different densities of glaze give brown, blue and white effects. The maker's intentions behind creating the piece were to achieve a certain archaic flavour while using contemporary ceramic technological skills, to forge together in the fire an impression of water and an impression of skeletal fossils, and thereby to create an exciting temporal dimension at once eternal and fresh. Box: Notes by maker in register. |
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| Object history | Bought from the maker in London |
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| Accession number | FE.24-1987 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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