Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Frog Figurine

USA, 1900
<p>This small tan frog figurine   a crescent moon shaped mouth made from a piece of clay attached to the pillow like body. The eyes are two spheres with smaller blue and black spheres . The front legs are balloon like.</p><p>The back view shows the eyes, three small balls of clay near the tail that is also a ball of clay, and that the toes of the back feet are defined by lines in the clay.</p><p>The underside shows how the four legs are pressed into the body. The accession number, 2004.2.438, is written directly on the body.</p>
American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
Date acquired:
Materials:
Clay
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural:
Installation - small/intimate scale
Method:
Hand-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes: N/A
Randolph Joslyn Silver

Randolph Silver is best known for large hand-build trompe-L?oeil sculptures often in the form of an industrial teapot resembling rusted machinery. Silver also creates wheel-thrown floating clay sculptures which contain silicone.Silver came upon the use of silicone in clay while studying ceramics in Japan.

While the interior of the sculpture is traditionally glazed and fired in a gas-kiln, the exterior of the piece is coated with an iron patina and left outside to rust. Silver was inspired to do this work after a trip to a retired oil refinery and reflecting on the short comings of Western culture.

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American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)

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