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Pot, by Magdalene Odundo

Image attached to C.7-1986

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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