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| Title | Onto the wing (opus 18) | |
| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Potter | Audrey Blackman | |
| Description | Figurine, rolled pottery, porcelain with transparent glaze. | |
| Id Number Current Accession | P.77.13 | |
| Inscription | A. Blackman, 1976, Op.18 and title, incised on underside | |
| Location Creation Site | Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK | |
| Subject | ceramics, figurine | |
| Measurements | 22 x 17 centimetres | |
| Material | porcelain | |
| Glaze | transparent | |
| History | Built using David Leach's porcelain body based on Podmore's recipe. | |
| Notes | Comment: Stage 4 rolled pottery figures " 'Onto the Wing' shows off the translucency of David Leach's porcelain body and the way it can be drpaed. The object in this figure was to creat the effect of movment." Slides in Crafts Advisory Committee's Craftsman's Index, 12 Waterloo Place, London, SW1 |
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| Relation Exhibition | This work has been shown at: City of Stoke-upon-Trent Museum Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford Museum of Oxford Paisley Museum and Art Galleries International Museum of Ceramics at Bechyne, Southern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | |
| Rights Owner | Managed by the Crafts Study Centre. | |
| Style Period Period | 1960s | |
| Technique | rolling and modelling | |
| Process | Biscuit, fired at 960 degrees C. Glos 1280 degrees C., soaked for one hour and temperature reduced slowly for a further hour, oxidised. | |