Pot with Green Leaves (P440)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

Title

Pot with Green Leaves

Made in

London

Date

1990-93

Description

Earthenware pot with an abstract rim, with a beige coloured glaze and green abstract leaves.

Materials and techniques

Hand-built high-fired earthenware (slabbed). Painted with slip. Incised drawing. Second painting with underglaze pigment and chrome oxide. Clear matt lead sesquisilicate glaze. Don Billington recipe.

Dimensions

height:  38cm
width:  27cm
depth:  25cm

Object number

P440

Category

  • Pot With Green Leaves, Alison Britton, 1990-1993, Crafts Council Collection: P440.

Maker's statement

REWORKED IN 1993. AS ALISON BRITTON QUOTES: 'VERY FEW PIECES GET A 'REWORKING' IN THIS MANNER. I THINK IT WAS GREATLY IMPROVED'. 1990 VERSION SHOWN AT RETROSPECTIVE ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE AND TOUR OF UK MUSEUMS AND BOYMANS VAN BEURINGEN MUSEUM, ROTTERDAM.