Windswept jug

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Merric Boyd
Australia
1888 – 1959

Windswept jug
1934
porcelain
Place made
Murrumbeena, Victoria
Medium
porcelain
Dimensions
17.0 x 17.2 x 12.5 cm
Credit line
Gift of Blanche and Richard Koehne through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.
Accession number
20222C10
Signature and date
Signed and dated on base "Merric Boyd / 1934".
Provenance
...; (Marvin Hurnall, Melbourne); purchased 31 March 2004 by Blanche and Richard Koehne; gifted 2021 to AGSA.
Media category
Ceramic
Collection area
Australian decorative arts and design

  • Windswept jug is a wonderful example of Merric Boyd’s interest in depicting the Australian landscape in pots. This work depicts eucalyptus leaves blowing in the wind. Boyd has captured this in both the painterly application of glazes as well and hand modelling the handle of the vase depicted as the limb of the gumtree.

  • [Book] Fahy, Kevin, et al. 2004. Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950.
  • [Book] Hammond, Victoria. 1990. Merric Boyd Studio Potter 1888-1959.