Pot (P323)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Sara Radstone
Title
Pot
Made in
London
Date
1983
Description
Stoneware pot with a lopsided body and pinched rim, with a grid decoration on the surface.
Materials and techniques
St.Thomas's oxidising stoneware body, coil-built. Surface grid applied using tiny coils, each one smoothed in to produce 'sharp' texture, picking up extra glaze. Biscuit fired to 950 deg. C, then glazed and fired to 1230 deg. C.
Dimensions
height: 38cm
width: 35cm
Object number
P323
Category
Maker's statement
I was particularly pleased with this pot and felt when I made it that it was in some way a small breakthrough for me. There seems to be an especially strong relationship between the surface and the form, and it is still one of the most direct expressions of a feeling that I try to convey, that I have managed to produce. It set me off in a new direction accidentally, as it started as one half of a very unsuccessfull pot which I decided to cut down the middle and make into two - something which I now do quite often and find very helpful in inventing entirely new forms.