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Maker: Owen, Elspeth
Pinched clay vessel, decorated with slips and burnished.
Tall bowl, hand-built by pinching, with thin gently curved walls rising from a small rounded base to a wide open mouth, the whole not quite symmetrical. Layers of coloured slip are painted over the surface, inside and outside. The vessel has been burnished, low-fired to around 1000oc and lightly polished with beeswax.
History note: Oxford Ceramics Gallery, 29 Walton St, Oxford, from where purchased by the donors
Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through The Art Fund
Diameter: 20 cm
Height: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2017-11-20) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Circa
2010
CE
-
2017
CE
Elspeth Owen (b.1938), came to ceramics after a BA in modern history at Oxford and engagement with the Women’s Movement in the 1970s. She lives in Grantchester, near Cambridge. Elspeth produces pinched pots, each from a single ball of clay, which are then finished with subtly coloured slips, burnished, fired (sometimes with smoke) and polished. Her delicate open bowls, pillows and jars explore form, texture, tactility and colour. Finely balanced on small rounded bases, their body and surface suggest natural materials, landscape or perhaps egg-shell. She describes the thin permeable walls as ‘suggesting a link between inside and outside which has ‘fluency and ease. Water can seep in and out. A breath might pass through'. She chooses not to mark her pots.
Decoration
Pinching : Pinched clay, painted with slips, burnished and polished
Accession number: C.48-2017
Primary reference Number: 223082
Entry form no.: 1346
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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