Gold Lustre Bottle Pot, 1993

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Douglas Davies
Born Edinburgh, 1948

Gold Lustre Bottle Pot, 1993
Thrown stoneware with applied handle and gold lustre

Purchased from the artist, 1993
Museum number 1993-132

The shoulder of the bottle is decorated with a layer of gold lustre. This is painted on after the initial glaze firing then refired at a lower temperature to fuse the lustre to the glaze surface.