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Small Bowl with Fabulous Beast

YARROW, Catherine

Small Bowl with Fabulous Beast
Image: © Catherine Yarrow/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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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

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 24/6/2014

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

on display

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  • Applied Art
  • Applied Art
  • Ceramics
  • Ceramics
  • Earthenware
  • Representational
  • Studio Ceramics
  • Woman Artist
  • Yarrow, Catherine

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