Densaburo Oku

(Pennsylvania/Japanese, born 1945)

Salmon Fish, circa 1990, not apparently signed, blown red glass, cold painted iron, 30-1/4 x 14 x 14-1/2 in.

Provenance: The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, purchased in 2004 for $4,500.00 (accompanied by inventory record sheet); Jerry and Deena Kaplan Collection of Modern Art and Crafts
Condition Report: some contact abrasions on glass, abrasion to fish head, third element up has what might be a chip or it could be as made, tiny chips where the glass elements have met each other, weighs 50 lbs