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Magaki

This is a lidded container made of matte blue glass. The side features flowers peeking through a bamboo fence called magaki, made from striped glass loops that are softened with a flame and shaped by etching. Both the lid and body are made using the core-glass technique.
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Toru Sato
Morioka, Iwate, Japan
Toru Sato specialises in core-formed glass art, the oldest known glassmaking technique with only a few practitioners in Japan. The core glass techniqu ...
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