Floating Flower

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Object Name: 
Platter
Title: 
Floating Flower
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
89.6.1
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.4 cm, W: 37.8 cm, D: 29 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1987
Primary Description: 
Colorless, translucent white, pink, blue, gray, green lead glasses, gold leaf; blown with "pick-up" decoration, cut apart, sandblasted, fused with inclusion of gold leaf, slumped. Slightly concave lozenge shaped platter, roughly divided into three sections consisting of two hemispherical ends and a narrow central panel; mottled white background with assorted circular and linear pattern; end sections decorated with four large pink flowers (two with an embedded gold leaf petal and two with green and amethyst details), central panel has abstract gray and blue shapes with intermittent patterning of small circles (centered with gold leaf) and squares; colorless sandblasted underside; base point slightly ground flat, no pontil; inscribed in script near edge of underside: "Yumiko Noda '87".
Provenance: 
Galerie Gottschalk-Betz, Source
1988-11-28
Inscription: 
Yumiko Noda '87
inscription
Engraved edge of underside
Glass '87 in Japan
Venue(s)
Odakyu Department Store 1987-09-11 through 1987-09-23
Tokyo and Fukoka, Japan, Japan Glass Artcrafts Association
Glass '87 in Japan (1987) p. 169; BIB# 32756
Stained Glass Art (1986)