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Rick Dillingham
Black-and-White Sphere Vase1980

Not on view
Ceramic vessel with a large, rounded spherical body and tiny mouth, decorated with irregular metallic silver stripes and dark brown fire-marked blotches against peachy tan clay

Rick Dillingham, Black-and-White Sphere Vase, 1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Rick Dillingham
Title
Black-and-White Sphere Vase
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1980
Medium
Whiteware, silver leaf
Dimensions
Height: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); Diameter: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits
Accession Number
M.87.1.40
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Lauria, Jo; Color and Fire - Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2000.
  • Drexler Lynn, Martha. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and their Work: a catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.