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Potter: Koch, Gabriele
Hand-built T-Material and porcelain clay (probably), slip-coated, burnished, saw-dust fired, waxed, and polished. The bulbous pot stands on a narrow base. It has a very slight shoulder line, and the top cuves inwards and upwards to a narrow oval mouth. The lower part is mainly black, and the top, and part of the lower area is dappled pinkish-cream
History note: Purchased by the donors from the Hart Gallery
Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Diameter: 43 cm
Height: 34.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997-12-05) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1996
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Gabriele Koch studied History and Political Science at the University of Heidelberg followed by a two-year Diploma in Art and Design specialising in ceramics at Goldsmiths College, London. Since establishing her studio in London in 1982 with the aid of a Crafts Council setting-up grant, she has developed a series of distinctive spherical clay vessels. Koch has always been drawn to low-tech, traditional ceramic techniques, partly using recycled materials, such as sawdust for firing, as a way of placing her work in opposition to the often destructive processes of mass manufacturing. The direct approach is also a way of retaining creative control over the materials, forms and processes that sit at the heart of her work. ‘Earth, water, air and fire. Gabriele Koch’s lovely pots speak of all four of those elements as vividly as any I know.’ Sir David Attenborough, broadcaster and naturalist Gabriele Koch: ‘I concentrate on simple forms, trying to integrate balance and tension, stillness and movement, expansion and the containment of volume.’
Contemporary Craft
Studio Ceramics
Decoration composed of slip
Hand-built
: Hand-built T-Material, coloured with black and pinkish-cream slips, burnished, saw-dust fired, waxed and polished
Firing (heating)
Burnishing (polishing)
Inscription present: rectangular white paper sticky label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper sticky label
Accession number: C.104-1997
Primary reference Number: 81882
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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