Pot
Collection
MC
Brief description
Stoneware, painted in a geometric pattern in grey and white slips with blue slip on the rim, with an elongated lip on one side. Elizabeth Fritsch, 1975.
Title
Spout pot
Object number (per part)
P.20
Object name (per part)
pot
Location - controlled (per part)
Offsite Storage
Production person
Fritsch, Elizabeth
Production date
1975
Material
stoneware
Technique
painted
oxidised
coil built
fired
oxidised
coil built
fired
Physical description
Stoneware pot, painted in a geometric pattern in grey and white slips with blue slip on the rim, with an elongated lip on one side.
Dimensions
height: 22cm
length: 11cm
width: 16cm
length: 11cm
width: 16cm
Label
Fritsch has always sourced her ideas from numerous disciplines – literature, philosophy, physics, music and mathematics but mostly from paintings and buildings. Her work is hand-built, not thrown and then painted with numerous layers of slip and fired many times to create the desired qualities. Fritsch has never made preliminary sketches preferring to work directly with the material “letting your hands do the thinking”. Fritsch creates pots that are not truly functional, but rather allude to pots. She attended the Royal College of Art, London in 1967 – 1971, where one of her tutors was Hans Coper. She was awarded the CBE in 1995.