Thursday 31 March 2011

Today I have been mostly...

Many years ago I was fortunate to pick this book up cheaply. It's full of wonderful illustrations of a diverse selection of pottery. One of the pictures is of a pilgrim flask by Minton. I have searched the Internet extensively but can't find a picture of the same ones. Anyway, I decided that one day I would make my own as it looked like it was creating a good surface for illustrative decoration.
This week I decide to just experiment with making one.
I've put some photos of some pilgrim flasks below. One by Bernard Leach and I think that the others are by Minton.
The one I made has a number of 'parts' it went together quite easily. I would like to play with the idea some more when I can clear some time to explore the idea.





4 comments:

  1. love your work! thanks for sharing the inspiration - I also have that book and haven't paged through it in ages. Off the shelf it comes.

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  2. Your flasks look great Margaret.

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  3. beautiful

    cant take my eye off any thing.......

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