40/1999

Collection

Glass

Brief description

Vase made from crushed, fired and polished recycled glass, with a pitted blue surface and green interior, made by Emma O'Dare in London in 1998.

Object name

vase
vase

Object number

40/1999

Production person

Emma O'Dare (designer)
Emma O'Dare (maker)

Production date

1998 (made)

Production place

London (made)

Period

Twentieth century (1900-1999)

Material

glass
cobalt oxide
chrome oxide
wallpaper paste

Technique

crushed
fired
polished

Physical description

Vase or vessel of part spherical form, the rim or aperture formed by a jagged edge, designed and made by Emma O'Dare in 1998. The outer surface is of pitted blue glass allowing the inner surface, which is coloured green, to show through. The surface has a volcanic quality, reminicent of pumice or sponge. The piece was produced by crushing recycled glass to a sugar-like consistency and mixing with ceramic oxides (producing the colours) and wallpaper paste. The mixture was painted onto a plaster mould and fired in a kiln. It was then polished. Emma O'Dare makes these pieces in series, selling direct from the studio and at craft fairs.

Dimensions

Height: 12.5cm
Diameter: 13.5cm

Website keywords

Decoration and furnishings
ornaments

Label

Caption for Exploring 20th Century London website:
When the museum bought this vase, made by Emma O'Dare from crushed recycled glass, in 1998, we contacted some of her customers who had bought similar pieces to ask how they displayed them in their homes. One woman living in Islington, a sculptor herself, had been drawn to the vase by the way the light shone through the pitted surface, and though it didn't have one stationary location in her home, she was keeping it at that time in front of a stained glass window in her hall, to catch its translucence as the coloured light filtered through it.