Large closed vessel, by Peter Hayes

An image of Studio Ceramics. Large closed vessel. Hayes, Peter (British, b.1946). Large flask-like closed vessel with narrow elliptical base, rising with straight sides and flattened at the top to a wide horizontal-line shoulder. A small incision in the shoulder leads down to a circular opening from back to front, though the top of the vessel remains entirely sealed. Surface coated with red-brown slip incised with an abstract texture like wood that has begun to split with age. Burnished to a shiny finish which the firing process has shaded from mid to dark. Designed to stand upright. Hand-built clay, slip coated, decorated with incised pattern, burnished and fired. Height 33.5 cm, width 31.5 cm, depth 12 cm, 1997.

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Studio Ceramics. Large closed vessel. Hayes, Peter (British, b.1946). Large flask-like closed vessel with narrow elliptical base, rising with straight sides and flattened at the top to a wide horizontal-line shoulder. A small incision in the shoulder leads down to a circular opening from back to front, though the top of the vessel remains entirely sealed. Surface coated with red-brown slip incised with an abstract texture like wood that has begun to split with age. Burnished to a shiny finish which the firing process has shaded from mid to dark. Designed to stand upright. Hand-built clay, slip coated, decorated with incised pattern, burnished and fired. Height 33.5 cm, width 31.5 cm, depth 12 cm, 1997.

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Accession Number: C.17-2018
© Peter Hayes. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 515.99kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2019:01:29 13:19:29

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20th Century _WF_Copyright art pottery British School burnished burnishing clay closed fired Fitz_AA hand built hand formed incised Peter Hayes pottery slip slip-coated slipware studio ceramics studio pottery vessel

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