Bottle

Collection

MC

Brief description

Stoneware bottle illusion, painted with geometric shapes in black, maroon, pink and white. Elizabeth Fritsch, 1975.

Title

Optical bottle

Object number (per part)

P.21

Object name (per part)

bottle

Location - controlled (per part)

Offsite Storage

Production person

Fritsch, Elizabeth

Production date

1975

Material

stoneware

Technique

painted
oxidised
coil built
fired

Dimensions

height: 24.5cm

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.