Stoneware Square Covered Box with Mustard Yellow Ash Glaze
MakerMade by
Edward Hughes
(1953 - 2006)
StudentTaught by
Ray Finch
(London, England, 1914 - 2012)
CollectorCollected by
Sandy Dunbar
(London, England, 1929 - 2012)
Date1999
Object NameBox
Mediumstoneware
ClassificationsCeramics
DimensionsOverall (Height x Width x Depth): 92 × 167 × 166mm
Base (Height x Width x Depth): 59 × 167 × 166mm
Top (Height x Width x Depth): 37 × 165 × 165mm
Base (Height x Width x Depth): 59 × 167 × 166mm
Top (Height x Width x Depth): 37 × 165 × 165mm
AcquisitionThe Sandy Dunbar Studio Ceramics Collection presented in 2023 by Crinan Dunbar and Rebecca Russell.
Copyright© the copyright holder
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS095708.30
About MeThis square stoneware box with cover is slab-built. Glazed inside and out in mustard yellow-green ash glaze. The cover, which sits snuggly over a rim on the base, is decorated with diagonal bands of feathered yellow-green slip resist under a dark celadon glaze.
Hughes frequently used ash gathered from various places close to the pottery to achieve rich colours of glaze when the piece was fired at a high temperature in a reduction kiln. For this box he used wood ash obtained from his local sawmill, to create a glaze which he named "Robin Hood sawmill ash".
