Pot With Stand (P317)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Henry Pim
Title
Pot With Stand
Made in
Brixton
Date
1982
Description
Stoneware pot predominantly red and shaped in an upward twist, on top of a stand, predominantly red and shaped like a four legged stool with a pointed protrusion from under the base.
Materials and techniques
Buff stoneware textured using a plaster of Paris rolling pin. The form was arrived at by making a paper model, sections of which were used as templates to cut out the already textured clay. The legs of the stand were made by rolling clay around wooden dowel. Glazed and slipped, with repeated firings to 1260 deg. C.
Dimensions
height: 106.5cm
diameter: 26cm
Packed Length: 95cm
Packed Width: 49cm
Packed Height: 86cm
Object number
P317
Category
Maker's statement
This piece is one of a pair. The other was bought from the Crafts Council Shop at the V & A by the Contemporary Arts Society. Since making these two pieces I have made fewer pieces on stands. They were the only ones I made using that particular shape.