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.
Tall Lidded Jar
Potter: Waal, Edmund de
Porcelain, with impressed 'seal marks' coloured blue under pale celadon glaze
Porcelain, thrown, and impressed in two places with seal marks coloured blue under pale celadon glaze. Cylindrical with uneven, slightly tapering sides and visible throwing marks, narrow shoulder, and short unglazed neck. The base has a glazed central circular depression surrounded by a concave area, and a flat unglazed edge which has been scored with criss-cross lines. The sides are decorated in two places with impressed 'seal marks, touched with blue: a group of three near the top, and one further to the right about half way down The circular cover has straight sides and very slightly convex top. Its interior is unglazed except for a circle in the centre. A black felt circle has been applied to the outer edge of the base
History note: Adrian Sassoon, 14 Rutland Gate, London, from whom purchased by the donors
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund
Diameter: 12.2 cm
Height: 50 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2006-11-21) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
`
AD 1999
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: In this series of works, de Waal was testing the boundaries of vesselmaking in porcelain through stretching and distorting the thrown forms. Edmund de Waal: ‘These lidded jars were my attempt to make impossible porcelain vessels – to try and create objects that looked as if they had some utility but had none. And to escape the small and precious aura that hung miasmically around porcelain. These jars became progressively more and more etiolated until their instability made them literally impossible.’
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Cover
Diameter 8.5 cm
Throwing
: Porcel
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.45 & A-2006
Primary reference Number: 136927
Entry form: 824
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) "Tall Lidded Jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/136927 Accessed: 2024-04-20 13:23:29
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/136927
|title=Tall Lidded Jar
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-20 13:23:29|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-136927
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_45_20_26_20A_2006_1_201506_kly25_dc2.jpg"
alt="Tall Lidded Jar"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Tall Lidded Jar</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
