Sculptural Vessel

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Object Name: 
Sculptural Vessel
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
87.6.20
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 48.6 cm, W: 22.2 cm, D: 14.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1987
Credit Line: 
Gift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.
Primary Description: 
Striated translucent white, colorless, cobalt non-lead glasses; blown with hot applications, hot worked foot. Flattened ovoid shape on solid base; collared opening flows into striated white ovoid body decorated on both flat sides with large circular application of cobalt appearing blue-black; one narrow edge has two thick trailed applications running from opening to body base in colorless, then cobalt; opposite side has single application of cobalt; narrow body base rests on cobalt patty joined to narrow solid, cylindrical base of cobalt knop thickly cased in colorless; pontil ground and polished; unsigned; paper label on base: "KR 83.71".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Iwata Glass Co., Ltd., Source
1987-11-18
Color: 
White, colorless, cobalt
colorless
white
Technique: 
blown with hot applications, hot worked
Inscription: 
KR 83.71
label
: 
base paper label

Exhibitions (1)

Toshichi and Hisatoshi Iwata in Colored Glass (1987)
Venue(s)
Takashimaya Department Store Gallery 1987-09-23 through 1987-09-29