Small Bowl with Fabulous Beast
YARROW, Catherine
© Catherine Yarrow/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Bowl, red terracotta, hand-built conical form; decorated inside with a four-legged fabulous beast of surreal form incised through a layer of cream slip, to its left a five-pointed star incised within a roughly circular form.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 39547
Creation/Production
YARROW, Catherine
Date: 1945 ca
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 24/6/2014
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height (cm): 5.8
diam (cm): 16.2
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 6
Techniques
hand-built
forming
Applied Art
coiled
forming
Applied Art
slip-coated
decoration
Applied Art
incised
decoration
Applied Art
Material
terracotta
slip
Location
Front Hall, South Balcony : Case G
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