© Richard Slee
Toby with Aeroplane
Artist: Richard Slee (born 1946)
Location: Walker Art Gallery
Date: 1994
Materials: earthenware
Dimensions: 48 x 40 x 23cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,600 (Total: £3,240)
Vendor: Barrett Marsden Gallery
Review number: 5404 (2004)
Provenance:
The artist.
Description:
The Toby jug theme is part of Slee's questioning of Englishness and the continuing or changing meaning of English traditions. This work is typically ambiguous - is this a grumpy child with a toy plane, or a sort of nursery-rhyme King Kong? The enlarged scale helps to emphasise the strangeness of the Toby jug as an iconic form, like John Bull or Mr Punch.
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