sculpture

Object NameVessel

Series

Spirit Matters

Maker David New-Small (b. 1945)

Maker Margot Thomson (b. 1938)

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1984

Techniqueblown with colored trailing, fired enamel painting

SizeH: 30 cm, W: 28.1 cm, D: 16.4 cm

Accession Number87.4.67

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

New Glass '84

Place Made

Canada, British Columbia

Physical DescriptionColorless, with transparent red, blue and amber non-lead glasses, polychrome enameling; blown with colored trailing, fired enamel painting. Tall ovoid vessel with straight, collared neck; where neck joins slight shoulder three broad, irregular wraps of red, blue, amber; straight-walled body tapers slightly towards base and is decorated in lower half with the same three wraps which have been marvered into the glass; body is decorated on one side with enamel painting in the manner of an American Indian hide painting--design includes a wide fringed diamond enclosing stylized images of a large red face, a rider with raised arms and wearing a hat on a spotted animal with long curved horns, and a half sun symbol; footless base ground flat, large pontil; inscribed in script on base: "New Small/ Margot T./ EMS 6".
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