Plate (P424)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Sutton Taylor
Title
Plate
Made in
Robin Hood's Bay
Date
1992
Description
Earthenware plate with collaged lustre decoration.
Materials and techniques
High fire white, high lime earthenware. The maker's own formular containing local marl. Wheel thrown with a turned foot ring. Biscuit firing to 1000 deg.C. Glaze firing to 1170 deg.C. Reduction furing to fuse in-glaze, on glaze and underglaze lustres to 750 deg.C.
Lustre colours produced by combinations of gold (sodium tetrachloro aurate), gold/silver, gold/copper, silver/copper. Fired in on-glaze formulations (maker's own recipes), in slip formulations. Fired in special kiln under powerful reduction conditions.
Lustre colours produced by combinations of gold (sodium tetrachloro aurate), gold/silver, gold/copper, silver/copper. Fired in on-glaze formulations (maker's own recipes), in slip formulations. Fired in special kiln under powerful reduction conditions.
Dimensions
height: 8cm
diameter: 46cm
Object number
P424
Category
Maker's statement
This piece is very representative of my work and was one of the best pieces made in 1992 and typical of that period.