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Small Brown Bowl
Maker: Britton, Alison
Earthenware, slab-built, painted with slips and glazed.
Large, squat, slab-built vessel, rising from a flat round-pear-shaped base to a wider, more elongated opening at the top. The sides are formed from a single folded piece of clay joined at a sharp angle. The surface is textured and coated with slips, buff on the inside and buff and brown on the outside, then decorated with gestural marks in brown, red-brown and brown-black slip, sometimes enhanced by blue-black glaze. The sides are matt glazed; the rim is clear and blue-black glazed. The underside is flat and decorated, but unglazed.
History note: Made for an exhibition at Parnham House, Dorset, 1988. Purchased from the artist by Ed Wolf, 1988.
Given by Ed Wolf
Depth: 26 cm
Height: 26 cm
Width: 19 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2017-07-17) by Wolf, Ed
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
marked
AD 1988
Alison Britton (b.1948) is a leading British potter with an international reputation. She trained at the Central School of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art, where one of her tutors was Hans Coper. She has taught at the RCA for many years and is also well known as a curator, writer and lecturer. In the early 1970s, Britton played a significant part in the shift away from thrown, functional , studio ceramics towards more colourful, expressive, hand-built wares. In 1990 she was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to the applied arts.
Britton’s abstract, gestural mark making and painterly application of slips blurs the line between art and craft. In her own words: ‘ the improvised relationship between the painted surface and the irregular form is what continues to engage me”. This piece was made for an exhibition at Parnham House, Dorset, in 1988. and also shown at Nationalmuseum Sweden in 1989.
Decoration
Slab-building : Buff earthenware, slab-built, decorated with buff, brown and black slips and matt, clear and blue-black glazes.
Inscription present: handwritten signature
Accession number: C.14-2017
Primary reference Number: 221634
Entry Form Number: 1331
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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