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Seaworn Jar: C.15-1980

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Seaworn Jar

Maker(s)

Potter: Eastop, Geoffrey

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Description

Thrown reduced stoneware, decorated with greenish-grey slip, and semi-matt glaze

Grey stoneware, thrown, decorated with slip, and semi-matt glaze, and fired. Of inverted baluster form with a short cleft on the handle side; short cylindrical neck with vertical rim, and semi-circular, upward-sloping spout, higher on one side than the other; and horizontal loop handle over the cleft in the body. The jar is decorated with an approximately circular area of greenish-grey mottled slip round the handle, and another echoing the shape of the vessel down the front.

Notes

History note: The Bohun Gallery, 13 Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, from which purchased

Legal notes

Purchased with the Applied Arts Duplicates Fund and a grant from Eastern Arts Association

Measurements and weight

Height: 42 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Henley-on-Thames ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1980-10-13) by The Bohun Gallery

Dating

20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date: AD 1980

Note

Geoffrey Eastop (1921– 2014) studied at the Croydon School of Art and Goldsmiths' College. From 1956-62, he worked with Alan Caiger-Smith at Aldermaston Pottery, then started his own pottery in south Berkshire. He worked at Fawley Bottom between 1969 and 1984, often collaborating with the artist John Piper.

School or Style

Studio Ceramics

Components of the work

Decoration composed of slip
Base Diameter 14 cm

Materials used in production

oxidised Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Grey stoneware, thrown, decorated with slip, and semi-matt glaze, and reduction fired

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: if upside down looks like a 5 with a cross through it

  • Text: GE monogram
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Painted in black
  • Type: Mark

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.15-1980
Primary reference Number: 72147
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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