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Mao Tse Toad

Artist (American, 1943 - 2013)
CultureAmerican
Date1976
MediumLow--fired white earthenware
DimensionsOverall: 81.9 × 45.7 × 29.2 cm (32 1/4 × 18 × 11 1/2 in.)
MarkingsSigned Mao Tse Toad Gilhooly 76
Description“Mao Tse Toad” is a major work by Gilhooly produced while he was resident in Toronto. The work depicts Mao Tse Dong as a frog character, in line with Gilhooly’s many evocations of his “frog world,” in which frog figures take on anthropomorphic attributes. Gilhooly made the work in three parts, being entirely hand modeled and glazed (rather than produced from molds) in the form of an over-sized bust on a stand. The bust is glazed somewhat naturalistically, while the stand is a loose approximation of Chinese blue and white
Credit LineGift of David Silcox and Linda Intaschi
Object numberG18.7.1a-c
Classifications
Modern and Contemporary Ceramics
Sub-classification
American
Status
Not on view
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