Tall bottle (P147)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

David Leach

Title

Tall bottle

Made in

Devon

Date

1977

Description

Stoneware bottle with a tall body and a thin neck with a wider rim, predominantly black tenmouku glaze with painted red/brown decoration.

Materials and techniques

Reduced stoneware with tenmoku glaze and decoration painted in ilmenite. Thrown. Biscuit fired at 950 deg. C; glaze fired at 1300 deg. C.

Dimensions

height:  57cm

Object number

P147

Category

  • Tall Bottle, David Leach, 1977, Crafts Council Collection: P147.

Maker's statement

I make a variety of similar large tenmoku bottle shapes.