Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Potter:
Fritsch, Elizabeth
Entities
Categories
Description
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
Notes
History note: Commissioned from the potter
Legal notes
Bought by the Friends of the Museum from Elizabeth Fritsch, with a grant from Eastern Arts Association
Measurements and weight
Height: 32 cm
Width: 24.1 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1992-11-23)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
20th Century, Late
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1992
Note
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.
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
slip
Materials used in production
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Coiling
: Red stoneware, hand-built, incised, and painted with pale and dark blue, green, yellow, reddish-brown and black slips
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.107-1992
Primary reference Number: 71270
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 14 August 2025
Last processed: Thursday 14 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
