Box with cast metal lid (P220)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Gordon Baldwin
Title
Box with cast metal lid
Made in
Eton
Date
1974
Description
Oxidised stoneware box with pink body stain and white dolomite glaze, with a cast aluminium lid.
Materials and techniques
Oxidised stoneware with pink body stain and white dolomite glaze. Slab-built. Fired to 1240 deg. C more than once. Lid cast in aluminium by lost polystyrene process.
Dimensions
height: 37cm
Object number
P220
Category
Maker's statement
From a series of boxes based on the system 12x12x21/2. About ten in the series. Some concerned with formal exploration, some like this one, a celebration of an event - the casting of the metal lid.