White Pot, Brown Dots, by Alison Britton

An image of Studio Ceramics. White Pot, Brown Dots. Britton, Alison (British, b. 1948). Tall slab-built vessel, rising from a flat base to a wider opening at the top, both near-triangular in shape. Two sides are each built from a single piece of clay, the third formed from several pieces in a mix of angular and curving shapes. The surface is coated and painted with slips, with gestural marks and dots in white and brown over varied buffs. The decoration, mostly applied prior to fabrication, displays the physical marks of application. The underside is flat and unglazed. Earthenware, slab-built and painted with slips and matt glazed. Height 41.5 mm, width 26.5 mm, depth 23 mm, 1986.

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Studio Ceramics. White Pot, Brown Dots. Britton, Alison (British, b. 1948). Tall slab-built vessel, rising from a flat base to a wider opening at the top, both near-triangular in shape. Two sides are each built from a single piece of clay, the third formed from several pieces in a mix of angular and curving shapes. The surface is coated and painted with slips, with gestural marks and dots in white and brown over varied buffs. The decoration, mostly applied prior to fabrication, displays the physical marks of application. The underside is flat and unglazed. Earthenware, slab-built and painted with slips and matt glazed. Height 41.5 mm, width 26.5 mm, depth 23 mm, 1986.

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Accession Number: C.13-2017
© Alison Britton. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 780 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 496.21kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2017:08:24 11:35:00

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20th Century _WF_Copyright Alison Britton art pottery British dots earthenware Fitz_AA glazed matt glaze pot pottery slab built spots spotted spotty studio ceramics vessel

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