Title
pot
Identifier
Description
Cooking pot, with everted rim and serrated projecting ridge around body, decorated with raised lines of zigzag impressions, red (slip).
Date
Early: 1800 Late: 1911
Format
H: 136 mm Dia: 185 mm
Coverage
Melanesia Vanuatu West Santo
Relation
clay fired.clay pottery
Abstract
Born in Aberdeen in 1620, Robert Morison graduated from Marischal College in 1635 and became Professor of Botany at Oxford. The red flower he holds may allude to his career but is more likely to relate to his impending marriage. Probably originating in a Flemish wedding custom a red carnation, when held in the sitter's hand very often signifies that the painting commemorates his betrothal.
UUID
032b8bc5-9247-482e-a1d1-de678de10e7b
