Jade Beetle Jar on Eggs

A studio piece and part of the collection of work on the natural world. ‘Jade Beetle Jar on Eggs’ is decorated with vivid lime green slips.

A SLIPWARE JAR, APPROX 25 CM

EXECUTED 2021. EARTHENWARE

The form of coil built red Staffordshire earthenware illustrated with beetles against off white oval eggs on a black ground using slipware traditions of slip trailing, painting and sgraffito, and finished with a transparent gloss glaze  to 1120°C oxidation firing.

Signed and dated, and impressed ‘KS’ to the base.

Arriving at Messums in the April 2021.

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