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Vivika Heino
Globular-Shaped Vase1980

Not on view
Large ceramic vessel with a spherical body and narrow neck, covered in a matte parchment-colored glaze scattered with dark charcoal and blue-purple spots

Vivika Heino, Otto Heino, Globular-Shaped Vase, 1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Vivika Heino
United States, active California, Los Angeles and Ojai, 1910-1995
Artist or Maker
Otto Heino
United States, active California, Los Angeles and Ojai, 1915-2009
Title
Globular-Shaped Vase
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1980
Medium
Stoneware, applewood ash glaze
Dimensions
Height: 10 3/4 in. (27.31 cm); Diameter: 12 1/2 in. (31.75 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits
Accession Number
M.87.1.59
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.