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Potter: Fritsch, Elizabeth
Stoneware, coiled, incised, and painted with coloured slips
Red stoneware, hand-built, incised, and painted with pale and dark blue, green, yellow, reddish-brown and black slips. Oval with a small flattened base, convex front and slightly concave back, the oval mouth cut lower at the front than at the back. The front is decorated with a geometrical pattern and has a reddish-brown band round the mouth; the back is black with a narrow yellow band and a wide blue band round the edge. The interior is yellow with greenish-blue spattering at the top of the back. The base is blue
History note: Commissioned from the potter
Bought by the Friends of the Museum from Elizabeth Fritsch, with a grant from Eastern Arts Association
Height: 32 cm
Width: 24.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1992-11-23) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1992
Label text from the exhibition ‘Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery’ on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 20 March until 17 June 2018: Fritsch’s hand-built vessels are instantly recognisable. They feature complex geometric designs, often partly formed from carefully incised clay. As seen here, many of her works have a flattened perspective, and have been described as similar to a representation of a pot that one might see in a painting. She has described her working methods as, ‘experimental and improvised at every stage. No drawing or detailed plans are made in advance.’
This is a version with different colouring of Fritsch's 'Quantum Pocket: from the EucalyptusGarden of the Villa at Triste-Le-Roy', 1984, see Documentation.
Decoration composed of slip
Coiling : Red stoneware, hand-built, incised, and painted with pale and dark blue, green, yellow, reddish-brown and black slips
Accession number: C.107-1992
Primary reference Number: 71270
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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