Mitzar, vase
(1982)
- Medium
- glass (applied decoration)
- Measurements
- 35.6 × 27.9 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- Murano, Venice, Italy
- Accession Number
- D78-1985
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of the National Gallery Women's Association, 1985
© erede Ettore Sottsass / Copyright Agency, 2024
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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The postmodern Memphis architecture and design group, founded in 1981, sought to overturn the canons of conventional taste. Their design embraced bright colour, asymmetry and the ephemeral, often referencing styles of the past in arbitrary fashion. Here a classically-inspired vase form is enlivened with bright primary colours and a bizarre, random placement of non-functional handles.
- Physical description
- Globular vase in deep blue, clear neck, wide mouth, applied blue rim, wide domed foot.