More Tea Vicar? (P441)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Stephen Dixon
Title
More Tea Vicar?
Made in
Manchester
Date
1993
Description
Teapot with lid depicting woman drinking tea and sitting on a baboon.
Materials and techniques
Slab built vessel form, decorated with slips and sprigged images (casts from found objects ) prior to assembly of slabs. Hand built handles and spout, textured from plaster moulds. Loosely modelled figures to lid. Monoprinted images applied afterwards.
Object number
P441
Category
Maker's statement
One of a series of new vessel forms which mark a significant change of direction in my work - softer, spontaneous forms, looser and sparer decoration and narrative.