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vase

Object NameLarge Vase

Artist Ans Bakker (Dutch, b. 1963)

Made FromGlass, Oyster Shells

Date2017

Place MadeNetherlands, Amsterdam

TechniqueMold blown

SizeOverall H: 25.5 cm, W: 28.3 cm, D: 24.5 cm

Accession Number2019.3.10

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

New Glass Now (TRAVEL)

Glass 4 Ever

New Glass Now

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Bakker made The Light from Zeeland with the immediacy of a high tide rolling into the shore. To create the mottled surface of this piece, she made a blow mold out of wet sand impressed with rocks, seaweed, and oyster shells. These elements give her work an intuitive, almost naive appearance, but they also read like the formula of soda-lime glass: sand stands for silica, oyster shells for lime, seaweed for flux, and rocks for color. -Susie J. Silbert Instagram: @ansbakker_glassartist

Physical DescriptionLarge Vase, "Zeeuws Licht no. 1 / The Light from Zeeland". Colorless, transparent blue, white, and yellow glass, oyster shells; mold blown. Large colorless glass vase with bluish tinge and irregular areas of white and yellow; vase has been blown into sand molds. The vase has wide shoulders that taper to a short neck and circular opening. The oyster shells are imbedded into the lower half of the vase's body with the shell's craggy surface exposed.
Provenance

Source Ans Bakker (Dutch, b. 1963) - 2017-2019-11-05