Homage to Palissy: Still Life with Fish

Object NamePlatter

Artist Miluše Roubícková (Czech, b. 1922)

Made FromGlass

Date1968

Place MadeCzechoslovakia, Novy Bor

TechniqueBlown, Hot-worked, applied

SizeOverall H: 7.2 cm, W: 21 cm, L: 29.5 cm

Accession Number99.3.61

Credit LineGift of The Steinberg Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978

On ViewModern Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Miluse Roubícková (Czech, b. 1922) designed award-winning, commercial glasswares for the Czech national glassworks at Nový Bor and Skrdlovice that were exhibited internationally. This colorful and animated sculptural plate, Homage to Palissy: Still Life with Fish, is typical of her studio glass. It was inspired by the work of Bernard Palissy, a 16th-century French ceramist and glass painter known for his brightly colored faience plates that featured realistic, modeled still lifes of fish and other marine life.

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent green, yellow-green and red, opaque yellow and yellow orange glass; ovoid conical shape with chevron pattern crimped edge (colorless) holding three glass fish and two yellow and yellow orange blobs and two green bumpy shapes.
Provenance

Source Steinberg Foundation - 1999-12-29

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