vase
- Museum number
- 2014,8024.608
- Description
-
Pot, hand built coloured stoneware, the form built up with coils or strips of rolled clay which has been coloured and speckled by mixing in manganese and copper oxides; the paler vein across the centre is stained with vanadium pentoxide mixed into the clay, the surface burnished. The rim higher on one side than the other.
- Production date
- 1984
- Dimensions
-
Height: 27.50 centimetres
-
Width: 15.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For Jennifee Lee, see David Whiting, 'Modern British Potters and their Studios', London 2009, pp. 78-83. See also the artist's website for a series of essays by Edmund de Waal, David Whiting, Alun Graves and others: http://www.jenniferlee.co.uk/essays/whiting.html (accessed 16/10/2015).
This and the following pot (2014,8024.609), were both made at 401½ Workshops on the Wandsworth Road, where Lee had a studio after finishing at the Royal College of Art. Lee has described her method as follows: 'In both pots the coils are added on as flattened coils, almost straps or strips of clay. I first roll a large round coil and flatten it with a rolling pin before adding the strip of clay, usually co,loured clay, to the insdie of the pot and building upwards. Clay is smoothed downwards in the inside and upwaqrds on the outside for a strong bond.' (email to J. Rudoe 9 December 2015). A biscuit firing, is followed by a high firing at between 1220 and 1280.
- Location
- On display (G48/dc7)
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by donor in 1984, either from the British Crafts Centre, Earlham St, London on 8 October 1984, or from Anatol Orient, Shelton St, London on 19 October 1984.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2014,8024.608
