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HUGE EXQUISITE JADE SNOW WONG ENAMEL PLATE / BOWL
DESCRIPTION: Presenting a very large & exquisite enamel on copper plate or low bowl, made by Jade Snow Wong, for Gumps, San Francisco. A really indescribable shade of deep Orange with internally filtered, microscopic Gold. Back retains original polished copper finish, with hand-inscribed signature and origin; also has the number F - 106. It measures 9-3/4"w. x 1-1/4"t.
CONDITION: Very fine. No Problems.
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Here is some interesting Jade Snow Wong historical information:
Ms. Wong attended San Francisco City College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mills College in 1942. She worked as a secretary during World War II, but an art class introduced her to pottery and the craft that would fill the rest of her life.
With no money to rent a studio, she persuaded a Grant Avenue merchant to let her work on her pottery wheel in the front window of her store, much to the dismay of her family and the derision of many passers-by.
"That was born of desperation, since she couldn't find affordable space to lease, but it also took an amazing amount of courage,'' her son said. "She never did follow the crowd."
The popularity of her pottery and enamelware grew so much that in 1952 she was asked to do a one-woman show at the Art Institute of Chicago that later moved to art museums in Detroit, Omaha, Neb., and Portland, Ore. Her work also was exhibited at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the International Ceramic Museum in Faenza, Italy.
Ms. Wong worked for years with her husband and fellow artist, Woodrow Ong, with Ong spinning the copper forms for her enamels and managing their travel agency.
"Her studio moved from Chinatown to Jackson Square and finally to Polk Street on Russian Hill, where she did copper enamel work until she died in 2006.
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