Large Bowl (P150)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Alan Caiger-Smith
Title
Large Bowl
Made in
Aldermaston
Date
1976
Description
Tinglaze earthenware bowl painted in smoked lustre.
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with brush decorated dark red lustre glaze turning to silver/green inside. Thrown. Opaque tin glaze fired at 1050 deg. C in wood-fired kiln and refired for the lustre reduction at 670 deg. C.
Dimensions
height: 13cm
diameter: 48cm
Object number
P150
Category
Maker's statement
This is one of a kind of family of large bowls, of which I make a small number every year, which are meant for occasional or "ceremonial" use, but from the making point of view are all non-repeatable ways of enjoying this large surface with brush and colour. The large bowl is for this technique (brush-painted the glaze) the nearest my work comes to an abstract object without function, and in this sense it leaves the maker very free, while __? a ceramic vessel.
