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Feeding the Chickens

Tile
1980 (designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Blank tile with coloured dust-pressed decoration of a woman between two trees feeding chickens.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFeeding the Chickens (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Black earthenware tile, white glaze, dust-pressed, sgraffito
Brief description
One of four tiles, dust-pressed black earthenware with painted sgraffito decoration, with white glaze, 'Feeding the Chickens' tile, a woman between two trees feeding chickens, industrially made blank, interlaced "CS" monogram bottom left, "SINZIG / AGROD / GERMANY" moulded on back. England (decoration), designed by Christina Sheppard in 1980, not put into production - one example only in 1980.
Physical description
Blank tile with coloured dust-pressed decoration of a woman between two trees feeding chickens.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10cm
  • Width: 10cm
  • Depth: 0.8cm
Credit line
Given by Christina Sheppard
Collection
Accession number
C.73:4-1994

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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