An important event from my childhood (P219)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

Gordon Baldwin

Title

An important event from my childhood

Made in

Eton

Date

1975

Materials and techniques

Oxidised stoneware with coloured body stains and white dolomite glaze; blue, brown, green and pink. Decorated with grooved lines, stencilled letters and three stainless steel rods. Slab-built. Fired to 1260 deg. C more than once.

Dimensions

height:  21cm

Object number

P219

Category

  • An Important Event from My Childhood, Gordon Baldwin, 1975, Crafts Council Collection: P219. Photo: Stokes Photo Ltd.

  • An Important Event from My Childhood, Gordon Baldwin, 1975, Crafts Council Collection: P219. Photo: Stokes Photo Ltd.

Maker's statement

It is one of a series of poem boxes in which the words are used for their meaning and not decoratively.