Crystal Dish

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Object Name: 
Shallow Dish
Title: 
Crystal Dish
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
78.6.8 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.8 cm, Diam (max): 26 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1976
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; cast, sandblasted, polished. Dish: shallow. Rim rounded; wall curves downward and inward, then descends steeply at bottom; plain base. Decorated by sandblasting outer surface of wall and small part of base; sandblasting is irregular and, when seen from inside of dish has appearance of aerial view of landscape surrounding lake with two islands, the polished underside of the base simulating water.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Hoya Corporation, Source
1976-01
to
1978-12-28
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
casting glass
sandblasting
polishing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art

Publications (1)

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 84, #63; BIB# 20603

Objects in Set (2)

Crystal Dish
Artist:Funakoshi, Saburo
Date:1976
Accession Number:78.6.8
Crystal Dish
Artist:Funakoshi, Saburo
Date:1976
Accession Number:78.6.8 A