Lidded Jar

Artist/Creator: Wayne Ngan (Artist)
Date: 1977
ID #: BG2719

Physical Description

Medium: stoneware, slip, glaze
Support: –
Dimensions: 24.2 cm 19.3 cm (Object)
Object Description: Jar of waisted form slumped and cracked by heat, inset lid with pierced knob, medallion lugs at incurve of shoulders. Rib carved lower body squared and altered with diagonal paddle impressions (rope?) flat base. Grey stoneware burned to rich brown. Pot placed in kiln at burner port: interior glazed warm orange-green, exterior underglaze of manganese-iron-cobalt dark pigmented slip fusing matt black with salt glaze, side facing burner port fused thick green to yellow and black to brown. Multiple cracking during firing with subsequent epoxy seam over crack. -Charmian Johnson, 2005

Studio ceramics
Doris Shadbolt Pottery Collection

History

Collection
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Doris Shadbolt, 2005
Related Exhibitions: –

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