Akan
Artist
Robert C. Turner
(American, 1913 - 2005)
Date1983
MediumStoneware
DimensionsOverall: 16 × 11 3/4 inches (40.64 × 29.85 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation
Object numberF84-6
Signed(On bottom, incised in clay): "TURNER"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionVase form with overall dark grey/blue glaze. hemisphere. Constructed of thick clay slabs. Various clay strips, about one inch wide by one-half inch thick, attached to surface. long overlap one another at the joint of the hemisphere and cylinder forms. Two stips about two inches long each attached to the cylinder form. small irregularly shaped pieces of clay at top and bottom of work. cylinder is square.Copyright© Estate of Robert Chapman Turner / Rosalind Turner Zuses
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