Pot (P345)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

Svend Bayer

Title

Pot

Made in

Beaworthy

Date

1984

Description

Brown stoneware garden pot with four handles and decoration with combs and rollers at the top of the pot.

Materials and techniques

Thrown and coiled (four coils added to base) stoneware. Decorated using rollers. Fired to 1300 deg.C in a wood-fired kiln. Glaze results from presence of 'fly ash' settling on exposed areas of the pot in the kiln, which gives a random effect.

Dimensions

height:  66cm
diameter:  56cm

Object number

P345

Category

  • Pot, Svend Bayer, 1984, Crafts Council Collection: P345.

Maker's statement

I now mainly make large garden pots and this is the largest pot that I regularly make. To make bigger pots I would need help to move the pots.