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Object NameSquared dish

Maker Maurice Heaton (American, b. Switzerland, 1900-1990)

Made Fromnon-lead glass, enamels

Dateabout 1954

Techniquecut, ground, kiln-formed-slumped(sheet steel mold)

SizeH: 3.5 cm, W: 28.1 cm, D: 28 cm

Accession Number96.4.196

Credit LineGift of Maurice Heaton

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass, opaque brown and transclucent pale yellow enamels; cut, ground, kiln-formed-slumped (sheet steel mold), reverse enameled--powdered enamels sifted and manipulated, fired. Low square dish with slightly rounded sides of bubbly sheet glass, walls flare from center squared base,e xterior decoration of granular enamel coloration; narrow perimeter border of brown fading to pale yellow, remainder of walls are unenameled down to base which has brown and yellow squared background, pushed through enamel is a stylized linear scene of male and female figures kneeling or squatting ack to back on a beach, male twists back to look at female facing away, above horizon line and at left is a sailboat and at right, scattered waves and flying birds, foreground has tufts of grass, starfish and sea shells; flattened square base; pushed through enamel at center lower edge of design and (reading from front): "M.H.".
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