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Blue Series

CURNEEN, Claire

© Claire Curneen/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Torso figure, white porcelain, sitting on a separate rectangular base, buff earthenware with white slip, the figure unclothed, the head small in proportion to the body and looking forward, the hands large in proportion and resting (right above left) in front, the base plain rectangular except for a flower moulded in relief to the right of the figure; details of the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, armpits and palms in dark underglaze cobalt blue, underglaze blue transfer-printed flowers around the lower part of the figure trailing onto the base at the back and from the left index finger, overglaze gold transfer-printed flowers on the thumb and two fingers of the right hand and the left index finger, also on the base beside the latter, 'pools' of liquid gold on the tips of the left index and second fingers, the tips of the right thumb and index finger, and on the flower moulded on the base.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 36419

Creation/Production

CURNEEN, Claire
Date: 2002

Acquisition

Purchase, 8/9/2002

Measurements

Height (cm): 47.5
Width (cm): 33
Depth (cm): 26.7
Height (cm): 40.5
Width (cm): 28.6
Height (cm): 7
Width (cm): 31.5
Depth (cm): 26.7
Height (in): 18
Width (in): 13
Depth (in): 10
Height (in): 15
Width (in): 11
Height (in): 2
Width (in): 12
Depth (in): 10

Techniques

pinched
forming
Applied Art
hand-built
forming
Applied Art
slab-built
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-gilded
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art

Material

porcelain
earthenware
glaze
gilding

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case J

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  • Animals And Plants
  • Applied Art
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Ceramics
  • Curneen, Claire
  • Figure Study
  • Flower
  • Identity
  • People
  • Studio Ceramics
  • Woman Artist

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