To Catch a Cock I
Flynn, Michael
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A figure group of raku, with a creamy-white glaze partly decorated with painted oxides (red, yellow, green and silver lustre); the base, formed from two opposed hollow wedges, supports a cock taking off in flight (fixed to the base by its tail with a cemented steel bolt) and a removable figure of a naked man crouching and reaching for the cock's tail with his left hand, his right hand thrown up behind him (with a steel bolt and brass pin fixed to a metal plate attached to one foot, which slot into holes drilled in the base).
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Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number
NMW A 34427
Creation/Production
Flynn, Michael
Date: 1996
Acquisition
Purchase, 9/2/2000
Techniques
Modelled
Forming
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Material
Raku clay
Glaze
Metal oxides
Steel
Brass
Cement
Resin
Location
In store
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