Not currently on display at the V&A

Dish

1987-1988 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rectangular dish or plaque with mottled-green and white enamel overlaid with silver leaf, fissured and split, across the lower half and with a separated patch of silver above.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Dish or plaque, enamel and silver leaf on copper, by Charlotte Block-Hellum, Oslo, Norway, 1987-8.
Physical description
Rectangular dish or plaque with mottled-green and white enamel overlaid with silver leaf, fissured and split, across the lower half and with a separated patch of silver above.
Dimensions
  • Length: 35.7cm
  • Width: 23cm
Content description
A silver 'landscape' below a mottled 'sky' in which floats a 'wing' or 'bird-like' form.
Marks and inscriptions
CBH (Inscribed)
Object history
Included in V&A exhibition 'Scandinavia: ceramics and glass in the 20th century', 20th century gallery, September 1989 - January 1990.
Bibliographic reference
Opie, J. Scandinavia: ceramics and glass in the 20th century, V&A, 1989, cat. no. 319, pp 97, 157.
Collection
Accession number
C.146-1988

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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