Untitled (from the Murrine Incise series)
Artist: Yoichi Ohira (Japanese, born 1946)
Date: 2003
Dimensions:
H: 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm); Diam: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) (dealer dimensions?)
Medium: Multi-colored soda-lime glass, assembled murrine (cane sections), fused, blown, applied, cut, engraved, polished
Place of Origin: Japan
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2004.5
Label Text:Yoichi Ohira’s vessels are reminiscent of the Japanese concept of kazari, loosely defined as the art of decorating or displaying. Fantasy, surprise, exaggeration, stylization, playfulness, and improvisation are also aspects of kazari, epitomized by Ohira’s transformation of a commonplace vase form into an object of extreme decorative complexity. Ohira’s surfaces draw much of their aesthetic impact from variegated textures as well as from the play between opacity and transparency, with “eyes” that often dot the surface.
Untitled, from Ohira’s Murrine Incise series, merges historical Japanese form with traditional Venetian glassmaking. While the shape is based on Japanese ceramic vessels, the decoration demonstrates the Venetian technique of using murrine, or patterns made from slices of complex, colorful glass canes. Ohira has lived and worked in Venice for most of his working career, moving there from Japan in 1973.
Untitled, from Ohira’s Murrine Incise series, merges historical Japanese form with traditional Venetian glassmaking. While the shape is based on Japanese ceramic vessels, the decoration demonstrates the Venetian technique of using murrine, or patterns made from slices of complex, colorful glass canes. Ohira has lived and worked in Venice for most of his working career, moving there from Japan in 1973.
Description Vase of ovoid shape blown with colorless and multi-colored transparent and opaque glass canes. The exterior vessel surface is densely decorated with facet-cutting and engraving. Signed and dated in script by the artist Yoichi Ohira and the Maestros Livio Serena and Giacomo Barbini under the base.
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