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Title	The glass of fashion (Opus 6)
Collection	Crafts Study Centre
Potter	Audrey Blackman
Description	Rolled pottery figurine, porcelain with a transparent glaze.
Id Number Current Accession	P.77.10
Inscription	A. Blackman, 1975, Op.6 and title, incised on underside
Location Creation Site	Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Subject	ceramics, figurine
Measurements	15 x 18 centimetres
Material	porcelain
Glaze	transparent
History	Porcelain built using David Leach's porcelain body from Podmore's recipe.
Notes	Comment: " 'The Glass of Fashion' represents Stage 4 in the development of my rolled pottery figures. These white figures lend themselves to impressed, incised and combed decoration." Audrey Blackman Slides in Crafts Advisory Committee's Craftsman's Index, 12 Waterloo Place, London, SW1
Relation Exhibition	This work has been shown at: City of Stoke-upon-Trent Museum Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford Museum of Oxford Paisley Museum and Art Galleries International Museum of Ceramics at Bechyne, Southern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Rights Owner	Managed by the Crafts Study Centre.
Style Period Period	1970s
Technique	rolling and modelling
Process	Biscuit fired 960 degrees C.. Glos 1280 degrees C. soaked for one hour and reduced temperature slowly for further hour. Oxidised