Speckled Egg (P134)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Mary Rogers
Title
Speckled Egg
Made in
Leicestershire
Date
1976
Description
Egg-shaped porcelain form on a narrow base with an uneven 'cracked' rim, with a green and brown spotted glaze.
Materials and techniques
Oxidised porcelain with semi-matt white glaze and decorated with oxides; green and brown. Hand-modelled by pinching the form out of one ball of clay. The oxides painted onto the raw clay before firing. Biscuit fired at 960 deg. C; glaze fired at 1300 deg. C more than once.
Dimensions
height: 8cm
Object number
P134
Category
Maker's statement
This is one of the first pieces in which I was developing my method of painting the colours on in a pointillist manner so as to mix and blend them and give depth and richness to the surface, and throughout the body.