Ceramic bowl
Ceramic bowl
Producer
Frankovič Ján
SKU
26506269
Techniques
pottery
Material
clay
Craft
clay craft, jug making
Dimensions
misa: diameter = 14.0 cm; misa: diameter = 23.0 cm; misa: height = 24.0 cm; misa s ušami: diameter = 26.0 cm
About product
Soup bowl with lid, made of red clay, thrown on a wheel. The vessel’s walls are concave, with two plastic semi-arched projections in the shape of handles below the rim. The conical lid has a plastic bird figurine as a handle on its top cut surface, and the bottom side of the lid has a vertical ring fitting into the vessel’s rim. Decoration: shards covered with white engobe, along the vessel’s perimeter branches /spruces/ and groups of dots – flowers, on the lid rows of vertical lines combined with incisions. Decor colors in brown and green, painted with a graver and brush. Transparent colorless glaze.
Member of the old pottery family from Bardejov, the fourteenth and last representative. He inherited from his father, who was the last master potter in Bardejov, the production legacy of the old craft along with written and other historical monuments...
