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Untitled (raku box with fish)

Artist Rick Dillingham (1952 Lake Forest, Illinois - 1994 Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Dateca. 1972

Mediumraku fired ceramic and wire

Dimensions2 × 21 × 15 1/2 in. (5.1 × 53.3 × 39.4 cm)

ClassificationsCeramic

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the estate of Marjorie Lesser Fasman, mother of Fay P. Abrams

Object numberPC2020.50.4.1

DescriptionA two-piece raku ceramic box with an opaque glaze in its uncapped central void. The edges and sides are unglazed and slightly scorched. Three small, square-shaped projections (protuberances) adorn the left and right sides of the box, each of which is apended with a small ceramic fish attached to a thin wire. Raku is a type of Japanese pottery that is hand-shaped, porous, and has an opaque glaze.

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