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Collection Item: Passage

Basic info

Collection
Decorative Arts
Title
Passage
Object name
Plate
Tin
Object category
Ceramic
Object subcategory
Studio ceramic
Creators
Dixon, Stephen (Potter)
Unknown (Metal worker)
Gramshree Trust (Quilter)
()
Description
‘Passage’ a set of three plates in lined tiffin tins by Stephen Dixon. Made in response to York Art Gallery’s painting Lady Charlotte Fitzroy and Her Indian Page, 1669-79, by Sir Peter Lely (YORAG : 18). Press–moulded earthenware plates, lead glazed with under-glaze slip decoration, on-glaze printed transfers, open stock transfers and gold lustre. Sheet steel ‘tiffin boxes’, custom-made by artisans in Ahmedabad, India. Quilted textile box liners, made at the Gramshree organisation in Ahmedabad. (Calico textiles re-cycled from block-printing table covers, sourced in Ahmedabad.)
Production date start
2012
Period
21st Century

More info

Identification

Object number
YORAG : 2012.48.1-6
Number of objects
6
ID
15010545

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Earthenware (Plates)
Lead glaze (Plates)
Slip glaze (Plates)
Lustre (Plates)
Sheet steel (Tins)
Calico (Tin lining)
Dimensions
Plates height 2.0 cm
Plates diameter 31.5 cm
Tins height 12.4 cm
Tins diameter 37.0 cm

Production

Creators
Dixon, Stephen (Potter)
Unknown (Metal worker)
Gramshree Trust (Quilter)
()
Location
Manchester
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
Technique
Press moulded
Underglazed
On-glaze transfer printed
Open stock transfer printed
Quilt
Block-printed
School/style
Studio pottery