Field photograph·Csn3138

A potter at his wheel

A potter shaping a tall clay vessel on his wheel
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3138. Public domain (CC0).

Description

An older man with a moustache, wearing a dark waistcoat over a shirt and a white apron, sits at a potter's wheel. He works wet clay into a tall, tapering vessel, with one arm reaching into its open top and the other hand pressed against its side. A second large jar stands partly visible at the right edge against a mottled plaster wall.

English, as on the record

A POTTER AT HIS WHEEL "The bazaar I found full of animation and movement. The little shops were a succession of open rooms or cells, and at the mouth of each shops were a succession of open rooms or cells, and at the mouth of each cell, on a wooden stool, sat the proprietor industriously working at his craft." W.H. Mallock-1888(In an Enchanted Island)

English, as on the record

A POTTER AT HIS WHEEL "The bazaar I found full of animation and movement. The little shops were a succession of open rooms or cells, and at the mouth of each shops were a succession of open rooms or cells, and at the mouth of each cell, on a wooden stool, sat the proprietor industriously working at his craft." W.H. Mallock-1888(In an Enchanted Island)