394a: Potters at Pediadha in Crete

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/68/1
Level Sub-item
Donor/Creator Bosanquet, Professor Robert Carr
Scope and Content The original description in the catalogue reads: "Potters at Pediadha in Crete. The master potter is finishing the rim of one of the huge shapely jars used for storage. His mate is seated slowly revolving the jar with a simple mechanism, clearly shown beneath the jar on the potter's right. At the potter's feet lies a mass of unworked clay. in the left-hand corner is one of the circular stands or turntables on which the pot revolves. The family and the mule stand by."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Studies of Modern Greek Life"
Related records [1936/2/2/68], 394: Cretan Life; R.C. Bosanquet
[BSA SPHS/1/5001.7594], Cretan potter at Work, 1901-1905