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Clear Glass Form
Glassmaker: Sato, Naoko
Extremely bubbly glass, cast, and kiln formed by heat. Formed as a vertical pleated tube which has been manipulated into an irregular roughly rectangular shape, wider at one end than the other, and sloping inwards at the wider end.
History note: Adrian Sassoon, 14 Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1BB from whom purchased by the donors
Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 21.5 cm
Length: 30 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2003-07-14) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1999
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Naoko Sato studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, London. She established her own studio in London in 2000 with the aid of a Crafts Council setting-up grant followed by a Woo Charitable Foundation Bursary in 2001. Sato specialises in techniques of casting and kiln working glass to create forms that suggest fluid movement. Naoko Sato: ‘I have always been interested in the way clothes find their shape on the human body. I love watching a woman with a pleated skirt walking by creating a wonderful movement. I tried to express this interest in the medium of glass by casting then stretching the cast piece in the kiln a second or third time.’
This form is inspired by the movement of women's pleated skirts
extremely bubbly colourless Glass
Casting (process)
: Extremely bubbly glass, cast, and kiln formed by heat
Kiln forming
Accession number: C.9-2003
Primary reference Number: 94597
Entry form: 186
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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