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Saint Sebastian

Tsivin, Vladimir

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Standing torso form, unglazed buff stoneware, enclosed flat base with texture picked up from fabric weave, undulating surface rising to the shoulders indicating the contours of the upper legs, torso, base of the neck and possibly the arms held in at the sides, a loincloth indicated by an area of diagonal parallel lines at the front and horizontal parallel lines running from here round to the back but not joining, impressed dots marking the nipples and navel, a deep vertical line incised down the back, an airhole at the top centre.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 39012

Creation/Production

Tsivin, Vladimir
Date: 1990

Acquisition

Gift, 31/1/2008
Gift of the artist and Anita Besson, 2008

Measurements

Height (cm): 50
Width (cm): 30.5
Depth (cm): 15.8
Height (in): 19
Width (in): 12
Depth (in): 6

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
incised
decoration
Applied Art

Material

stoneware

Location

Gallery 07B North

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