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Grimacing faces, jug
1982

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
30.5 × 25.2 × 19.5 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1982
© Murray Walker, Chris Sanders

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria

Inscription
incised in neck: Murray Walker 10.6.82 (Murray Walker underlined)

Accession Number
D37-1982

Department
Contemporary Design and Architecture

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Physical description
Jug with swelling body and vertical neck; the handle applied beneath the shoulder; the black glaze on the neck incised with a frieze of heads; the yellow ground of the body painted in black in an expressionistic manner with grotesque and grimacing heads.