Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Idluk: Fabulous Fish

Preview image of work. wheel-thrown white earthenware,painted with terra sigillata, carved, burnished, fired and lightly smoke-fired, Idluk: Fabulous Fish 43893

2021.62.26

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Idluk: Fabulous Fish

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Artist

Melissa Greene (Melissa Leslie Greene) (New Haven, CT, 1957 – )

Title

Idluk: Fabulous Fish

Creation Date

2006

Century

early 21st century

Dimensions

13 x 14 3/4 in. (33.02 x 37.47 cm)

Object Type

ceramic

Creation Place

North America, United States, Maine

Medium and Support

wheel-thrown white earthenware,painted with terra sigillata, carved, burnished, fired and lightly smoke-fired

Credit Line

Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

Copyright

This artwork may be under copyright. For further information, please consult the Museum’s Copyright Terms and Conditions.

Accession Number

2021.62.26

Working on Deer Isle, Maine, Melissa Greene looks to the natural world for inspiration. In Idluk: Fabulous Fish, she carved the intertwined fish encircling the jar into the fine white earthenware. The jar also features terra sigillata, a refined clay slip used by ancient Greek and Roman potters in place of glaze. When burnished, its gloss further enhances the surface.