Cat Fish

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Cat Fish
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Canada
Accession Number: 
81.4.165
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.6 cm, Diam: 14.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1980-1981
Credit Line: 
Gift of Toan Klein
Primary Description: 
Colorless and white glass; blown, with Gatograph (photographic screening process) embedded in white layer, polished base. Conical form with truncated base and rounded shoulders; raised, rounded rim; interior decoration on one side depicts tan cat with green fish as eyes; flat polished base with beveled edge; signed above base: "GATO 81 TOAN".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Klein, Toan, Former Collection
1981
Color: 
Colorless, white
colorless
Technique: 
blown
Inscription: 
GATO 81-TOAN
signature

Publications (4)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 63; BIB# 130418
Beauty of the Beasts (2004-11-14) illustrated, p. 1E;
The Gather (2004) illustrated, p. 3;
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 107; BIB# 32803