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Contrast, tea service

Contrast, tea service
 (c. 1975)

Medium
stoneware
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John Hinds, 2017
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
stoneware
Measurements
(a-b) 12.8 × 21.1 × 13.9 cm (overall) (teapot)
(c) 7.7 × 14.3 × 9.1 cm (milk jug)
(d-e) 9.3 × 8.7 cm diameter (overall) (sugar box)
(f-g) 7.5 × 15.0 cm diameter (overall) (teacup and saucer)
(h-i) 8.2 × 13.2 cm diameter (overall) (coffee cup and saucer)
Place/s of Execution
Hornsea, East Yorkshire, England
Inscription
(a) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●● ●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(c) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●● ●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(d) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ● ●●●●●● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(f) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●●●●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(g) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●● ●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(h) printed in white on base c.: HORNSEA / ENGLAND
(i) printed in white on base c.: HORNSEA / ENGLAND
Accession Number
2017.512.a-i
Department
International Decorative Arts
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John Hinds, 2017
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
A stoneware tea service consisting of a teapot, milk jug, sugar box and two cups and saucers. The components have a matte brown glaze on the exterior with white-glazed interiors to the cups and saucers, sugar box and milk jug. The bottom edge of each piece is decorated with a broad stripe of gloss dark brown glaze beneath a thin line of white. The same brown and white stripes and found on the lids of vessels and on the rims of the saucers.

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