Festival of Kyoto

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Festival of Kyoto
Accession Number: 
85.6.17
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 29.8 cm, W: 21.2 cm; Base Diam: 13.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Credit Line: 
Gift of Naoto Yokoyama
Primary Description: 
Transparent colorless, light blue, lavender and green with opaque white, purple and red-orange; blown, molded, tooled and cut. Irregular vertical vessel form with triangular stem; narrow straight-sided neck of opaque white cased in colorless with orange-red lip wrap sits atop hollow, bulbous, optic-molded section of colorless with emerald green mottling; hollow section attached with light blue transparent patty of opaque white with spiraling dark purple; patty is attached while hot to a flat triangular solid cast colorless section with two side phalanges of transparent lavender, each of the three corners has irregular cut lines radiating outward; triangle attached by transparent light blue patty to wide solid circular foot patty of same glass; base is ground flat with central circular slight indentation; intermittent bubbles and irregularities throughout surface. Signed and dated on bottom of base "N. Yokoyama 1984".
Provenance: 
Yokoyama, Naoto (Japanese, b. 1937), Source
1985-06-21
Inscription: 
N. Yokoyama 1984
signature
bottom of base
Glass '84 in Japan
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 178, top, left; BIB# 32803
New Glass Review, 6 (1985) illustrated, p. 28, #99;
Japan Interior Design (1984) p. 25, #308;
Vase (festival of Kyoto) (1984) illustrated BIB# 101961