Vessel, by Elpseth Owen

An image of Studio Ceramics. Vessel. Bowl. Owen, Elspeth (British, b. 1938). Tall bowl, hand-built by pinching, with thin gently curved walls rising from a small rounded base to a wide open mouth, the whole not quite symmetrical. Layers of coloured slip are painted over the surface, inside and outside. The vessel has been burnished, low-fired to around 1000oc and lightly polished with beeswax. Pinched clay, painted with slips, burnished and polished, height, whole, 15 cm, approx, diameter, 20 cm, approx, circa 2010-2017. Acquisition Credit: Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund.

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Studio Ceramics. Vessel. Bowl. Owen, Elspeth (British, b. 1938). Tall bowl, hand-built by pinching, with thin gently curved walls rising from a small rounded base to a wide open mouth, the whole not quite symmetrical. Layers of coloured slip are painted over the surface, inside and outside. The vessel has been burnished, low-fired to around 1000oc and lightly polished with beeswax. Pinched clay, painted with slips, burnished and polished, height, whole, 15 cm, approx, diameter, 20 cm, approx, circa 2010-2017. Acquisition Credit: Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.48-2017
© Elpseth Owen. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 927 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 101.29kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1

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21st Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Copyright _WF_Goodison art pottery blue bowl British burnished clay Elpseth Owen pale blue pinched polished pottery slip slip-coated slipware studio ceramics studio pottery vessel

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