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Water cooler

Michael CARDEW
Water cooler
 (1968)

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
(a-b) 31.1 × 18.3 × 19.4 cm (overall)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1969
© Courtesy of the artist’s estate

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Inscription
(a) inscribed in ink on base u.c.: Melbourne (...illeg.)
inscribed in red ink on base c.: 67 $15

Accession Number
D2.a-b-1969

Department
International Decorative Arts

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Unglazed buff-coloured body, design of lines, circles, crosses in iron oxide pigment, brown rim, stopper.

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Essay
Leach and Hamada: Bequest of Kenneth Hood

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