Floating Flower
Object NamePlatter
Maker
Niijima Glass Art Center
Maker
Yumiko Noda
(Japanese b. 1956)
Made FromLead glass, gold leaf
Date1987
Place MadeJapan
Techniqueblown with "pick-up" decoration, cut, sandblasted
SizeOverall H: 4.4 cm, W: 37.8 cm, D: 29 cm
Accession Number89.6.1
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass '87 in Japan
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless, translucent white, pink, blue, gray, green lead glasses, gold leaf; blown with "pick-up" decoration, cut apart, sandblasted, fused with inclusion of gold leaf, slumped. Slightly concave lozenge shaped platter, roughly divided into three sections consisting of two hemispherical ends and a narrow central panel; mottled white background with assorted circular and linear pattern; end sections decorated with four large pink flowers (two with an embedded gold leaf petal and two with green and amethyst details), central panel has abstract gray and blue shapes with intermittent patterning of small circles (centered with gold leaf) and squares; colorless sandblasted underside; base point slightly ground flat, no pontil; inscribed in script near edge of underside: "Yumiko Noda '87".Provenance
Source
Galerie Gottschalk-Betz
- 1988-11-28