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Good Children Vase
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| Accession #: | 3951.1 |
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| Title: | Good Children Vase |
| Object Type: | Vase; Sculpture |
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| Physical Description: | Vase shape tapers outward from smaller base towards a bulbous body, tapers back inward to a narrower cylindrical neck. Figures of children are painted on four sides of body. Broken, patterned, ceramic pieces are attached to body. Asian writing decorates neck. Cursive writing goes around base. Inside is glazed green, crackle glaze. |
| Description: | This series (the Good Children Vase series) is " 'more literal, narrative and figurative' than her earlier vessels - dealt with issues that arose directly out of experience. More than that, they became an extended meditation on the 'enormity of birth'; on the bond between mother and child; on her struggles (alongside her husband, David Horgan, a musician and fiction writer) to be a 'good' parent and to shape a 'good' child; on her own mother and father and her emerging empathy for them as parents and Chinese-Americans; and on her own Chineseness." (excerpt from: Newby, Rick. "Beth Lo: Taking stock of familial relationships." American Craft June/July 1999. Cover & pp. 42-45.) |
| Category: | Art |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Sculpture & Carving (Artwork)
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| Dimensions: |
Object H x Dia 19 x 12 "
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| Materials/Techniques: |
porcelain ( |
| Marks/Inscription: |
inconvenient, lost, joke, none, danger, tired, forget, rain, closed, almost, wait, none, broken
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| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase, Works From The Heart Art Acquisition Fund, 2000 |
| Copyright: |
non-exclusive license to the MAC
Copyright Holder: Beth Lo, Missoula
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