Contents:
(2) Color crayon on light cardboard size 14x18", signed in pencil Ohira 1983. It appears to be a study of molten colored glass a free form design. --
(9) Pages from a spiral bound sketchbook, all B&W pencil. Some self-portraits and others of acquaintances of Ohira. Size 8x11". Some signed and/or dated (as early as 1972 - 1974). --
(3) Seven small sized pencil drawings partially colored with color crayon or color pencil on beige paper. All are of various vases. None are signed or dated. (4x4"). --
(3) Three designs called Sirena. Pencil on tracing paper. 8x11". The same image is a half-woman and half-fish. There are pencil notes on the drawings: Filo Bianco, Lattimo, Cristallo. Two signed Ohira 1990. --
(1) Pencil on tracing paper of a vase. 13x18" signed Ohira 1987. A vase titled: Bianca-Neve. --
(1) Pencil on tracing paper of a vase. 13x18" not signed. Title: Sommerso Costa Smeralda size of the vase is 30.5 cm. --
(5) five color pencil drawings of various vases some signed by Ohira 1991. --
(20) A booklet containing twenty cardboard cut-out designs of various vases in actual sizes. Appears to be similar to the work illustrated in the catalog Venezia E L'Oriente, 1993. All the cut-outs have penciled annotations indicating the various sizes and colors used. These are either Italian or Japanese. One of the items is signed Ohira in ink and Japanese rubber name stamp. This one is titled, Bottiglia (Colonna Di San Marco). --
(9) Color pencil drawings on brown paper tacked onto white cardboard. Drawing size: 10x13". All but one signed Ohira in ink as well as with a Japanese rubber stamp. Mostly dated 1990. Some have measurements. Three are labeled: Vasi a Scavo (Spiaggia). --
(11) A booklet containing eleven sheets with pencil or ink drawings on both sides of each sheet 8x11". Most sheets having pencil annotation Vetraria Di Mayo. Various vases. Mostly signed Ohira and dated 1991. --
Newspaper clippings on past Ohira exhibitions. --
Three exhibition catalogs. --
One photo with two glassblowers or workers, unidentified. --
One cardboard cut-out silhouette of an unidentified man.