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Vase zoomorphe, la Tarasque

PICASSO, Pablo

Madoura Pottery

Vase zoomorphe, la Tarasque
Image: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Zoomorphic jug in the form of a bird, buff-white terracotta, standing on four inverted conical feet, rounded body with wedge-shaped tail and conical neck with spouted pan-shaped rim, curved strap handle; glazed all over in white, the form of a monster (the Tarasque) on the breast painted in black and incised through to the clay, the tail also painted in black with the face, teeth and ears of the Tarasque monster, the ears also incised, the neck painted in iron red as a castellated turret with four alternating arched windows in black and white, each containing a painted and incised soldier holding a spear, alternating in contrasting white and black.

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 39003

Creation/Production

PICASSO, Pablo
Madoura Pottery
Date: 1954

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 1/3/2008
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Cut
Decoration
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Manipulated
Forming
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Painted
Decoration
Applied Art
Incised
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Terracotta

Location

In store
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  • Applied Art
  • Applied Art
  • Artist Ceramics
  • Ceramics
  • Ceramics
  • Continental Earthenware
  • Earthenware
  • French Earthenware
  • Mythology And Fantasy
  • Picasso, Pablo

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