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Crumpled Vase
Potter: Arroyave-Portela, Nicholas
White clay, thrown, crumpled, and sprayed with red-brown terrasigilata slip and blue-stained slip
White St Thomas stoneware clay, thrown, with very thin ridged sides, and manipulated to produce a crumpled effect, and biscuit fired. The interior is covered with very shiny clear glaze. The exterior is sprayed overall with thin red-brown terrasigilata slip, and over that with blue stained slip. The lower part is rounded. The tall sides bulge out slightly in the middle, and then slope inwards towards the oval mouth. The blue-stained slip covers the base completely, gradually becomes dappled, and finally shades out about half way up the vase.
History note: Purchased by the donors from Adrian Sassoon, 14 Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1BB
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund.
Height: 50 cm
Width: 23.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2002-03-04) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
21st Century, Early
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 2000
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Nicholas Arroyave-Portela studied Ceramics at Bath College of Higher Education, and then worked in the London studio of potter Kate Malone. In 1996, he established his first studio with the aid of a Crafts Council setting-up grant, establishing his current studio in East London in 2000. The artist’s technical and visual invention with the clay vessel soon gained wide recognition, following early success with a major award at Ceramic Contemporaries II at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1996, culminating a few years later in major museum shows in the UK and abroad. The present vessel’s forms draw inspiration from the artist’s fascination with the flow of water and the folds of moire silk garments that he studied at the Costume Museum in Bath as a student. ‘Drawing attention to the abstract qualities of Arroyave-Portela’s work is crucial. Although his pots are evocative of natural phenomena, his response to nature is lateral rather than literal.’ - Lesley Jackson, design curator, historian and author specialising in twentieth-century design.
Decoration
composed of
terra sigillata (slip)
( SM ball clay with hexametaphosphate and oxide colourant)
Interior
composed of
glaze
Rim
Width 16 cm
Exterior
white St Thomas clay Earthenware
Throwing
: White St Thomas clay, thrown, with thin ridged sides, and manipulated to produce a crumpled effect, fired, sprayed with terra sigillata and blue slips and fired again
Manipulated by hand
Accession number: C.3-2002
Primary reference Number: 47103
Entry form number: 166
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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