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| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Potter | Rosemary Wren | |
| Description | Model of bird, stoneware, grey with brown spots; saltglazed, with iron oxide broken through glaze to represent spots. | |
| Decoration | Incised wings and pierced decoration eyes | |
| Id Number Current Accession | P.84.30 | |
| Inscription | Wren bird seal on base | |
| Location Creation Site | Oxshott, Surrey, UK | |
| Subject | ceramics, model, model of bird | |
| Measurements | 16.7 x 9.7 centimetres | |
| Material | stoneware | |
| Glaze | saltglaze | |
| Relation Exhibition | ´The Oxhott Pottery: Denise and Henry Wren´, Crafts Study Centre at the Holburne Museum of Menstrie, Bath, 1984 | |
| Rights Owner | Rosemary Wren/Crafts Study Centre 2004 | |
| Style Period Period | 1950s | |
| Technique | hand-modelling | |
| Process | Fired in the first version of the large coke-fired saltglazing kiln that was perfected in 1959. | |
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