Epergne
Epergne
1998 (made)
1998 (made)
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David Clarke enjoys playing with materials and processes to ask questions and challenge approaches to working metal. Epergne is an early work by Clarke made of balanced silver strips with lifelike ceramic fruit hanging from the branches. An epergne is typically an ornamental centrepiece for a dining table and in Clarke’s version time is suspended as the fruit gently quiver.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 30 parts.
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| Title | Epergne (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Silver, gold, stainless steel and ceramic |
| Brief description | Epergne, silver, parcel-gilt, stainless steel and ceramic, London hallmarks for 1998, mark of David Clarke |
| Physical description | Epergne, silver consisting of a series of `U' shaped silver strips, connected by lateral strips of silver with a pin at each end. The pieces of `fruit', a combination of aplles and pears are made of ceramic and realistically painted. Each piece of `fruit' has a bow of silver-gilt wire which hooks on to a stainless steel strut in the form of an arc, upturned at one end and which is threaded through the top of the `U' shaped sections. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions |
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| Gallery label | Epergne
Silver, parcel-gilt, stainless steel, and ceramic
David Clarke
London, 1998
Museum no. LOAN:MAKOWER.16:1-30
Lent by The Penelope and Oliver Makower 1974 Charitable Trust
David Clarke enjoys playing with materials and processes to ask questions and challenge approaches to working metal. Epergne is an early work by Clarke made of balanced silver strips with lifelike ceramic fruit hanging from the branches. An epergne is typically an ornamental centrepiece for a dining table and in Clarke’s version time is suspended as the fruit gently quiver.
(14.12.2023) |
| Credit line | Lent by The Penelope and Oliver Makower 1974 Charitable Trust |
| Object history | Shimmer Exhibition RF.2005/756 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | David Clarke enjoys playing with materials and processes to ask questions and challenge approaches to working metal. Epergne is an early work by Clarke made of balanced silver strips with lifelike ceramic fruit hanging from the branches. An epergne is typically an ornamental centrepiece for a dining table and in Clarke’s version time is suspended as the fruit gently quiver. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | LOAN:MAKOWER.16:30-1998 |
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| Record created | January 17, 2006 |
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