This Fossil Egg pot isn’t made of chocolate but makes an alternative egg for our Easter themed Keeper’s Corner!
This unusual egg-shaped ceramic form is by local artist and potter, Jane Waller. Here she has pressed white earthenware clay into a two-piece mould and then joined the two halves to form a large egg. The pattern is inspired by an ammonite fossil and is created using a millefiori technique invented by the potter. Coils of clay coloured with natural oxides are rolled to size and then cut into small cross-sections which are pressed into the base of the mould in a spiral pattern. The pressing or ‘pestling’ of these joins them into a solid wall of clay. As it measures 28cm in length and is quite heavy our visitors may be sorry that it’s not made of chocolate! Come and see it on display in Discover Bucks Art.
In next week’s Keepers’ Corner we’ll be looking at a beautiful medieval gold ring.
