Nostalgia

Object NameVessels

Artist Yoichi Ohira (Japanese, 1946-2022)

Assistant Giacomo Barbini

Assistant Livio Serena

Made FromGlass

Date2001

TechniqueFused, Blown, Cased, Cut

SizeOverall a) H: 15.9 cm, Diam: 31.1 cm; b) H: 11.3 cm, Diam: 20.5 cm; c) H: 24.3 cm, Diam: 12.4 cm

Accession Number2001.3.18

Credit Line16th Rakow Commission, purchased with funds from the Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

The Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass

The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time

Favorites From the Contemporary Glass Collection

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Ohira is inspired by the vivid colors of Venetian glass and the quiet, restrained forms of Japanese decorative arts. This trio of vessels consists of three forms that represent different elements of the Japanese landscape: “Crater,” “Lake,” and “Waterfall.” In this work, fused canes, patterned murrine, and inlays are picked up on the blowpipe and blown. Colored glass powders are added during the blowing process. Cratere displays the type of murrine that is known as corazza della tartaruga (turtle carapace). The blue glass surfaces of Lago and Cascata are lightly cut in the battuto technique to suggest the movement and reflection of light on water.

Place Made

Italy, Venice, Murano

Physical DescriptionVessels, "Nostalgia". Opaque ivory, white, chestnut, red, transparent blue and purple, aquamarine and black powders; fused, blown, cased, cut, colored powders, inlays. a) Opera N. 1 (Cratere (crater)): Conical shaped bowl with thin red band applied on rim with transparent blob shaped inlays in midst of murrine slices. b) Opera N. 2 (Logo (lake)): Squat cylindrical shape rounding at base edge and at shoulder into short tapering neck with red applied band at rim. c): Opera N. 3 (Cascata (waterfall)): Tall tapering cylindrical form rounding slightly at shoulder into small short tapering cylindrical neck with red applied band at rim.
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