Rectangular colorful Japanese plate

Géode Rectangular Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: D 21 x W 46 x H 3 cm. Materials: Optical glass and gold leaf. Weight: 7 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...

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Pair of Japan plates is an original decorative porcelain object realized in the 19th century by Japan manufacture. The smaller tray is decorated with multicolored floral reliefs and decorations and has a polylobed edge. On the back, it has decorations painted in blue. Provided with metal base. Dimensions: Height 4 cm, diameter 32 cm. The larger tray has a polylobed edge and side panel decorations. At the center floral decorations and on the back blue decorations with birds and flowers. It is equipped with a metal wall plate holder...

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An antique large Rideau silver plate rectangular serving tray with engraving interior and ornate border with handles.