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Object numberN1998-0001-068-0

TitleWater Drops

CreatorNg Eng Teng (1934 – 2001)

Description“Water Drops (1991), for instance, may be interpreted by the uninitiated as an abstract rendition of rain on a mountain slope, but was in fact inspired by a Chinese poem on the subject of tears which may be those of joy or of sorrow. So, instead of a mountain, it suddenly assumes the shape of two tear drops on a face looked at in profile.” (Bodies Transformed, Ng Eng Teng in the Nineties, Page 17).

Production date 1991

Object categorySculpture

MaterialStoneware, glaze

Dimensions

H: 57 cm
L: 56 cm
W: 17 cm

Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng