pitcher

Object NamePitcher

Designer Hisatoshi Iwata (Japanese, 1925-1994)

Factory Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.

Made FromNon-lead Glass

Date1982

Place MadeJapan, Tokyo

Techniquecased, blown, tooled, etched

SizeOverall H: 11.4 cm, W: 14.3 cm

Accession Number85.6.8

Credit LineGift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Hisatoshi Iwata (1982)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with dark blue mottling and black; cased, blown, tooled and etched. Irregular pitcher with handle; small black bulbous vessel with narrow top opening flanked by a small "finger" handle formed by pinching the sides of the glass and tooling the opening; irregular organic form fabricated from colorless covered with crushed dark blue then cased in colorless and flashed in black creating on roughly textured surface; body tooled while hot then overall exterior is acid etched in liquid striation; interior evenly etched; solid bottom is ground and polished flat with four small paper feet.
Provenance

Source Iwata Glass Co., Ltd. - 1930-18-04