Stoneware Lidded Pot (one of two) (circa 1980-84)

Richard Hugh Neville Batterham

stoneware

The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

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Classification:

Craft, Pottery

Materials:

Stoneware

Physical Object Description:

Speckled grey stoneware, thrown, shaped, and chatter-tooled, the interior, deorative band on the exterior, and cover covered with translucent, crazed, greenish-grey glaze, the lower part of the jar with dark-brown iron-glaze; base and underside of the flange of the cover, unglazed. Ovoid with four angles at the shoulder, a projecting band above, and an everted, flat-topped rim domed cover with a swirl in the centre, and a flanged edge. Below the rim of the jar there is a double row of chatter-tooled triangles creating a border pattern. A pair with C.80 & A-1992.

Dimensions:

22 x 18 cm

Accession Number:

C.80 & A-1992

Credit:

Presented by Contemporary Art Society, 1992

Scheme:

Historic Craft Purchase by Purchaser (1949-2010)

Ownership history:

Purchased at Bonhams, with aid of a grant from W. & F. C. Bonham Ltd, by John Keatley for the Contemporary Art Society, 15 November 1990 (lot 314; pair); presented to The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, June 1992

Relationship:

John Keatley Bonhams (Messers W. & F.C. Bonham), London The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

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