Long oval serving dish (P386)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Jane Hamlyn
Title
Long oval serving dish
Made in
Doncaster
Date
1987
Description
Stoneware serving dish with two modelled handles and coloured slips with an embossed leaf decoration on the base.
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware ceramic. Embossed leaf decoration on slabbed base, with thrown and altered ring added. Modelled handles (two) and coloured slips and engobes, giving blue and other colours. Textured wallpaper used for slabbed base to achieve embossed surface.
Dimensions
height: 9cm
length: 24cm
width: 48cm
Object number
P386
Category
References
Peter Dormer - Exhibition book ''Jane Hamlyn - Saltglaze, for use and ornament". (1988)
Maker's statement
Made since receiving Crafts Council Bursary (Ruskin Award) in 1986. New work incorporating both slabbed and thrown techniques. This piece represents an attempt (hopefully successfully) to make parts which are complete and authoritative, even when not in use, i.e. empty.