Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
85.6.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 40.2 cm, W: 24.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Credit Line: 
Gift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd
Primary Description: 
White and black glasses. White ovoid shape which sits on four applied cylindrical black legs, top flares slightly to black rim, large cylindrical applied white handle with black stripe; applied black decoration of two faces with exaggerated eyebrows, eyes and lips; label on bottom of one foot, "1" and on bottom of bowl, "6802".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Iwata Glass Co., Ltd., Source
185-04-30
Color: 
white, black
white
Inscription: 
6802
label
: 
bottom of bowl
1
label
: 
bottom of one foot

Exhibitions (1)

Hisatoshi Iwata (1984)
Venue(s)
Wako Tokyo 1984 through 1984

Publications (3)

Hisatoshi Iwata glass art (1996) illustrated, pp. 85, #39, 205, 195; BIB# 36908
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 153, bottom, third from left; BIB# 32803
Recent Important Acquisitions, 28 (1986) illustrated, pp. 114-115, #58; BIB# AI17497