Continuing the Victorian curio and museum specimen aesthetic, Kerrie Creighton captures a salt-glazed Victorian stoneware inkwell recovered from the earth in Colchester.
The study highlights the subtle earthy tones, utilitarian form, and tactile surface of a everyday 19th-century vessel that once fueled daily correspondence, records, and literature. Displayed with hand-drawn archive labels (“FIND: STONEWARE INKWELL / FIND LOCATION: COLCHESTER, UK”), the artwork elevates an unassuming discarded object into a poignant piece of social history.
Framed in an antique molded gold frame, this piece forms a companion study to the flint scraper, celebrating the beauty of forgotten domestic relics unearthed through mudlarking.
Housed in antique wooden frame with glass front.