These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Foreign Policy Initiative
Potter: McNicoll, Carol
Earthenware, moulded, glazed, and transfer-printed, with an attached pressed-glass bowl attached to the figure's by means of a screw.
Earthenware moulded, glazed, transfer-printed in shades of green, yellow, red, purple, and black, and having a pressed-glass bowl screwed to the head of the figure. In the form of a soldier in battle dress standing on an overturned Corinthian capital. He stoops forward, and supports the bowl on his head. The capital is glazed overall in beige with some grey-brown mottling.The soldier is glazed grey and decorated over the upper part of his body and head with transfer-printed flowers and foliage in shades of green, yellow, red, purple, and black. The pressed-glass bowl has a central flower, and on the sides, a reticulated design of panels of stylized foliage, and ‘diamond-cutting’.
History note: Purchased by the donors from Barrett Marsden Gallery at the Collect exhibition held 9-13 February 2006 at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 30.3 cm
Length: 23.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2006-03-06) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2003
: dated
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Carol McNicoll: ‘This work was made as a response to our military engagements in the Middle East. The classical base is a reference to the area’s long history of civilisation. After the Iraq war, my work became more political.’ A life history interview with Carol McNicoll is available at http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Crafts
This work is can probably be related to a statement on art as a medium for making political statements, made in 2002 by Carol McNicholl in a discussion of her recent work, see Documentation (2003), p. 101.
Decoration
composed of
printing colour
Base And Figure
composed of
earthenware
Bowl
composed of
glass
Diameter 22.5 cm
Base
Width 17 cm
Figure
Accession number: C.9-2006
Primary reference Number: 126940
Entry form number: 810
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Foreign Policy Initiative" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/126940 Accessed: 2024-11-15 20:55:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/126940
|title=Foreign Policy Initiative
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-15 20:55:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-126940
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa33/C_9_2006_200702_adn21_dc2.jpg"
alt="Foreign Policy Initiative"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Foreign Policy Initiative</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
