Red, Gray & White Bottle

Object NameBottle

Artist Makoto Ito (Japanese, 1940)

Assistant Yoko Kuramoto (Japanese, b. 1950)

Studio Ito Glass Studio

Made From8% PbO Lead Glass

Date1985

Place MadeJapan, Yamanashi-ken, Oshino

TechniqueFree-blown, incalmo technique, applied

SizeOverall H: 23.8 cm, W: 18.8 cm, D: 15.7 cm

Accession Number86.6.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBody of light gray transparent % Pbo lead glass overlaid with colorless and opaque white, neck colorless, cased with transparent red/orange glass; free-blown with "incalmo" technique. Flattened vertical ovoid with short neck; short, straight-sided lipless neck tooled flat with narrow opening comprised of thick colorless thinly cased in orange/red, applied while hot to body; swelling body of light gray cased in colorless then overlaid in upper two-thirds with two broad parallel uneven bands of white draped over shoulders and covering broad sides of vessel, outside edge of each band forms a smooth deep curve, inside edge is irregular and barely meets opposite band; footless base has ground and polished pontil.
Provenance

Source Makoto Ito (Japanese, 1940) - 1986-02-17