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Aquarium

Artist Eddie Dominguez born 1957 Tucumcari, New Mexico; lives Lincoln, Nebraska

Date1990

Mediumglazed ceramic and tin

Dimensionscabinet: 30 × 25 1/4 × 11 in. (76.2 × 64.1 × 27.9 cm)
vase, each: 5 1/2 × 3 in. (14 × 7.6 cm)
yellow and blue bowl: 3 3/8 × 6 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (8.6 × 15.9 × 12.1 cm)
yellow bowl: 3 1/2 × 7 1/4 × 5 5/8 in. (8.9 × 18.4 × 14.3 cm)
blue and green bowl: 3 1/8 × 5 in. (7.9 × 12.7 cm)
pink bowl: 3 1/2 × 5 × 4 1/2 in. (8.9 × 12.7 × 11.4 cm)
blue cup: 3 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 3 3/8 in. (8.6 × 9.5 × 8.6 cm)
pink and blue cup: 4 1/4 × 3 3/8 × 3 7/8 in. (10.8 × 8.6 × 9.8 cm)
shaker, each: 3 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (8.9 × 7 cm)
yellow fish: 1 1/2 × 14 3/4 × 10 1/8 in. (3.8 × 37.5 × 25.7 cm)
dark fish: 1 7/8 × 7 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (4.8 × 19.1 × 39.4 cm)
long fish: 1 7/8 × 5 1/2 × 12 3/4 in. (4.8 × 14 × 32.4 cm)
algae plate: 1 3/8 × 13 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (3.5 × 34.3 × 21.3 cm)
leaf plate: 1 3/8 × 10 3/8 × 6 3/4 in. (3.5 × 26.4 × 17.1 cm)
square plant plate: 1 1/4 × 10 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (3.2 × 26.4 × 24.8 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Don and Pamela Michaelis

Object numberPC2016.18.34.1

DescriptionA sculptural dinnerware set in the form of an aquarium. The individual ceramic elements form an aquatic scene, which is housed in a metallic gold, black, and bronze-tin cabinet with various textures and sporadic geometric patterns. The scene is visible through an opening on the front of the cabinet. The aquarium holds three multi colored tropical fish plates, with one located in the upper center foreground and the others further back in the cabinet. Across the bottom foreground of the scene are two corals, each formed from a stacked bowl, cup, and shaker, and a fern-like sea plant plate. The background features more sea plant plates, a pink coral bowl, and a tall branch-like cholla cactus skeleton dotted with holes.

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