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Metamorphosis

Table
1980 (made)
Artist/Maker
Stuart Hill (designer and maker)
Place of origin
Suffolk (made)

Low table on four legs, square in cross-section, each topped with a crouching frog; the top of the table decorated with frogs - in various stages of emerging from square shapes - as they seem to proceed towards the crouching frogs on top of the table legs.


Object details

Categories
Ironwork
Metalwork
Furniture
Object type
Table
TitleMetamorphosis (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Steel
Steel
Forging
Brief description
'Metamorphosis', low rectangular table on four legs, each topped with a crouching frog, mild steel, designed and made by Stuart Hill, Suffolk, 1980
Physical description
Low table on four legs, square in cross-section, each topped with a crouching frog; the top of the table decorated with frogs - in various stages of emerging from square shapes - as they seem to proceed towards the crouching frogs on top of the table legs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40cm
  • Width: 74cm
  • Depth: 37cm
Gallery label
'METAMORPHOSIS' TABLE Mild Steel England; 1980 M.4-1981 Designed and forged by Stuart Hill, winner of the 1st prize at the International Modern Ironwork Exhibition at Lindau, Germany, 1980.(07/1994)
Object history
This table won the organisers' prize at the exhibition of modern ironwork, Lindau, W Germany, in 1980
Subject depicted
Frogs
Bibliographic references
  • Towards a New Iron Age. London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982. p.64.
  • Baumgartner, Alois. Moderne Kunstschmiedearbeiten und Skulptur. Munich : Fachverband Metall Bayern, 1980. p.118.
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.4-1981

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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