Materials:
Stoneware
Physical Object Description:
Speckled grey stoneware, thrown, shaped, and incised, 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 tooled triangles creating a border pattern.
Dimensions:
22 x 18 cm
Accession Number:
C.80 & A-1992
Credit:
Presented by Contemporary Art Society, 1992
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