Short Measure, by Richard Slee

An image of Studio Ceramics. Contemporary Craft. Short Measure. Slee, Richard (British, b.1946). Production Note: The form resembles a yard of ale glass. The object has a globular lower end with sixteen ribs from which extends a fluted trumpet, the mouth of which has thirteen bats' wing scallops of irregular size. When lying down, it rests on two of the points. Earthenware, the inside covered with white glaze, and the outside with pale yellow glaze shading to pale greenish-blue. Length, whole, 61.7 cm, diameter, end of trumpet, 25.3 cm, 1988. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Studio Ceramics. Contemporary Craft. Short Measure. Slee, Richard (British, b.1946). Production Note: The form resembles a yard of ale glass. The object has a globular lower end with sixteen ribs from which extends a fluted trumpet, the mouth of which has thirteen bats' wing scallops of irregular size. When lying down, it rests on two of the points. Earthenware, the inside covered with white glaze, and the outside with pale yellow glaze shading to pale greenish-blue. Length, whole, 61.7 cm, diameter, end of trumpet, 25.3 cm, 1988. Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.

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Accession Number: C.2-2005
© Richard Slee. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 662 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 52.43kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1

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