- Object Name:
- Seder Plate
- Artist/Maker:
- Eduard Hermans
- Bio:
- Dutch, b. 1959
- Title:
- Table 5750
- Place Made:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Date:
- 1989
- Medium:
- Porcelain
- Dimensions:
- 9 7/8 × 18 7/16 × 18 7/16 in. (25.1 × 46.8 × 46.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Tobe Pascher Workshop Commissioning Program
- Accession Number:
- 1998-116
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For this project, Eduard Hermans designed a multilevel table. The textured surface of the porcelain suggests the three matzot used during the Passover Seder. While the pyramidal forms function as supports for the tiers and serve as containers for symbolic foods, they also recall a desert landscape.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.