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Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Euphrates

Vase
1983 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

White porcelain body, coloured yellow, silver and black, single piece with aperture at the top; built up to resemble pipe fittings with flanges, small cutlets and reinforcing ribs on junction of flange with pipe.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleEuphrates (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain
Brief description
Porcelain vase: 'Euphrates' designed by Ettore Sottsass, made by Porcellane San Marco, Le Nove, Bassono, Italy, 1983.
Physical description
White porcelain body, coloured yellow, silver and black, single piece with aperture at the top; built up to resemble pipe fittings with flanges, small cutlets and reinforcing ribs on junction of flange with pipe.
Dimensions
  • Measured from object height: 39.2cm
  • Maximum; measured from object width: 22.3cm
  • Measured from object depth: 19cm
Bibliographic reference
Adamson, Glenn and Pavitt, Jane. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970- 1990 London: V&A publishing, 2011 pp, ill 85, 86, 87, 113,161,167 . ISBN 978 1 85177 6597
Collection
Accession number
C.205-1985

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Record createdSeptember 28, 1998
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