Untitled (from the Murrine Incise series)
Untitled (from the Murrine Incise series)
Artist
Yoichi Ohira
(Japanese, born 1946)
Place of OriginJapan
Date2003
DimensionsH: 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm); Diam: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) (dealer dimensions?)
MediumMulti-colored soda-lime glass, assembled murrine (cane sections), fused, blown, applied, cut, engraved, polished
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
2004.5
Not on View
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.
Label TextYoichi 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 conversion 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 of the pots.Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, "News: the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art," New Glass Review 28, 2007, p. 103.
Page, Jutta-Annette, Peter Morrin, and Robert Bell, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, Toledo, OH, 2012, p. 118, repr. (col.) p. 124, pl. 69.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, New Acquisitions in Glass, Oct. 8 - Dec. 26, 2004.Toledo Museum of Art, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, June 14-September 9, 2012.
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Third to first century BCE
Second century BCE to first century CE, possibly later
Early to mid-first century CE
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