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History of Bristol

Philippa Threlfall (b.1939) and Kennedy Collings (1933–2002)

Redcliffe Way, Bristol City

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Fifteen low-relief panels depicting aspects of life in Bristol. These include: a thirteenth century merchant ship; intertwined Dragons; St Catherine's Wheel; 'The Mathew', based on an admiralty seal; a sixteenth century Elizabeth Seal; seventeenth to eighteenth century St Mary of Redcliffe; a seventeenth century coin; a seventeenth to eighteenth century trading token; seventeenth to eighteenth century tobacco; the eighteenth century corn exchange; a nineteenth century glass kiln; the nineteenth century SS 'Great Britain'; a nineteenth to twentieth century corn sheaf; the twentieth century jet intake of Concorde; a thirteenth century Common Seal of the Burgesses of Bristol.
Title

History of Bristol

Date

1982

Medium

terracotta & buff clay with manganese & copper oxide & copper lustre glaze

Accession number

BS1_PF_S054

Acquisition method

funded by Standard Life Developments

Work type

Panel

Owner

Owners of Broad Quay House

Custodian

Owners of Broad Quay House

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

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Located at

Redcliffe Way, Bristol City

BS1 4DJ

Set on the east face of Broad Quay House.