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Empty Vessels: Primavera and Orange & Lemon Counterpoint
Empty Vessels: Primavera and Orange & Lemon Counterpoint
Empty Vessels: Primavera and Orange & Lemon Counterpoint

Empty Vessels: Primavera and Orange & Lemon Counterpoint

Maker (Whitechapel, London, England, born 1940)
Date1999-2005
Object NameVessels
Mediumpale (low iron) stoneware clay, clay slips (engobes) with cobalt and titanium
ClassificationsCeramics
AcquisitionPresented in 2022 by Jane Hamlyn.
Copyright© Jane Hamlyn
Object numberABDMS095660
About MeThese three saltglazed stoneware vessels are from the Empty Vessels series by Jane Hamlyn.

The wheel-thrown cylinders were tilted, cut and joined to a base.

Primavera is heavily salt-glazed and was fired in an oil-fired kiln at 1280 degrees Celsius.

Orange & Lemon Counterpoint consists of two lightly salt-glazed vessels that were fired in a gas kiln.
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