"Big" vase
Jiří Pelcl
Czech, born 1950
2009
A tall, ribbed glass vase in which the designer stretches a familiar vessel into a minimalist, columnar object that uses transparency and repetition to turn function into sculpture.
Its precise vertical flutes and scalloped mouth immediately command attention—light slips along the repeated ribs so the thin, clear glass reads as at once fragile and architectural.
By reducing a vase to rhythmical ribs and pure glass, the piece bridges craft and design, showing how scale, repetition, and material qualities can elevate a utilitarian object into contemporary sculptural form.
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
11 13/16 × 3 15/16" (30 × 10 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
144.2016
Palette
Exhibitions
