Wall Plate

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Object Name: 
Wall Plate
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
82.6.4
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.9 cm, Diam: 48.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1981
Credit Line: 
Gift of Itoko Iwata
Primary Description: 
Colorless, very bubbly glass with black glass or enamel and gold foil inclusions; blown. Irregular flat oval shape with abstract interior decoration spreading out from center and creating rough, uneven surface; polished pontil area; unsigned.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Iwata, Itoko (1922-2008), Source
1982-04-20
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown

Exhibitions (1)

Glass '81 in Japan
Venue(s)
Japan Glass Artcrafts Association 1981 through 1981
Odakyu Department Store 1981-09-11 through 1981-09-23

Publications (3)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 153, bottom, second from left; BIB# 32803
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1982 (1983) p. 7; BIB# AI97140
'81 Nihon no garasu ten : ima garasu ga kataro to shiteiru mono wa = Glass '81 in Japan (1981) illustrated, ill.; BIB# 32754