Description
Horse Chestnut baby half shell, nut, lid and leaf
Collect from gallery £228
Including UK delivery £242
Baby half shell nut & lid, 5 x 4cm, joined to tiny leaf, 7 x 7cm
This piece has a shell and a tiny leaf joined together onto a pewter stalk.
The Baby half shell with removable nut and lid and the tiny leaf are attached to a pewter stalk which is hand painted. The shells and leaves are life size and cast in clay then glazed and hand painted.
The nut is hand modelled and along with the shell they are glazed and hand painted.
Penkridge Ceramics’ success lies in the creation of the ”real thing” when it comes to ceramic fruits, vegetables and horsechestnuts.
This stand- alone collection, established in 1984 by MA Ceramics graduates, Lorraine Taylor and Nicky Smart, is now considered the best in it’s field.
All design work, glaze development and production is carried out in the studio in Walsall, in the West Midlands, U.K.
The attention to detail is paramount, each piece is individually considered, with several layers of glaze added to create both colour and texture, giving a ”super-real” effect and accuracy of finish.
Our influences lie in trompe l”oeil and early still life paintings of fruits, which demonstrates the beauty of the organic forms along with the accuracy and detail required to represent the ”real thing.”
