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Village

Alan, Heaps

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Sculptural piece in the form of a stylised exotic village, red-brown stoneware, standing on a flat-topped rectangular base with curved bottom and edges, the village comprising from left to right a gateway with hinged door, an archway behind entwined with snakes and supporting a linen canopy stretched over a round-ended wooden frame and tied in place by string, to the right a meandering fence leading to a further gateway with steeply stepped roof, behind the fence and in front in a stepped well an elephant, in the gateway to the right a camel; partially covered with a green/blue glaze.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 36330

Creation/Production

Alan, Heaps
Date: 1982 ca

Acquisition

Gift, 11/11/2002
Rhodd Casgliad Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, 2002 Arts Council of Wales Collection, Gifted 2002

Measurements

Height (cm): 15.9
Width (cm): 35.7
Depth (cm): 13.5
Height (in): 6
Width (in): 14
Depth (in): 5

Techniques

modelled
forming
Applied Art
cut
decoration
Applied Art
rolled
shaped
pierced
decoration
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
tied
sawn

Material

stoneware
wood
canvas
string
metal
glaze

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Alan, Heaps
  • Animals And Plants
  • Applied Art
  • Architecture And Buildings
  • Camel
  • Ceramics
  • Communities And Society
  • Elephant
  • Fence
  • Fine Art
  • Sculpture
  • Studio Ceramics

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