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  • Other Name

    Bone Table (maker's title)

  • Description

    form, Bone Table, salt-glazed woodfired creek clay and porcelain, bowl containing two bones and two half bones on cloth draped table shaped base

    (.1) base, stoneware, woodfired creek clay, glazed brown, resembling cloth draped table, lines presses into lower edge to create fringing, 'BONE' incised into table top in weather vein formation

    (.2) bowl, salt glazed porcelain, deep, rounded base, salmon coloured

    (.3) bone, large, porcelain, salt glazed translucent green with three porcelain feet to underside

    (.4) bone, small, porcelain, salt glazed purple/blue

    (.5-.6) bone, half, salt glazed, translucent mottled ochre glaze

  • Place
    Putiki Bay/Waiheke Island/Auckland City/Auckland/New Zealand
  • Accession Number
    2003.66.22
  • Accession Date
    14 Jul 2003
  • Other Id

    7728 (Asset Register)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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