Pot, by Magdalene Odundo

An image of Studio Ceramics. Pot. Odundo, Magdalene (British, b. Nairobi, 1950). The jar is globular with a short neck and slightly everted rim. Earthenware, handbuilt with coiling, burnished, bisque-fired, and smoke-fired, height, whole, 27.5 cm, circa 1983.

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Studio Ceramics. Pot. Odundo, Magdalene (British, b. Nairobi, 1950). The jar is globular with a short neck and slightly everted rim. Earthenware, handbuilt with coiling, burnished, bisque-fired, and smoke-fired, height, whole, 27.5 cm, circa 1983.

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Accession Number: C.7-1986
© Magdalene Odundo. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 1018 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 495.00kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1

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20th Century African art pottery bisque fired burnished burnishing coiled coiling earthenware fired Fitz_AA globular hand built handmade Kenyan Magdalene Odundo pot pottery smoke fired studio ceramics studio pottery

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