- Object Name:
- Seder Plate
- Artist/Maker:
- Johnathan Hopp
- Bio:
- Israeli, b. 1975
- Artist/Maker:
- Sarah Auslander
- Bio:
- Israeli, b. United States, 1973
- Place Made:
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Date:
- 2003
- Medium:
- Found plate: ceramic decal
- Dimensions:
- 1 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (3.2 × 29.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Contemporary Judaica Acquisitions Committee Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2010-15
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The Passover Plates are made using old plates we bought at the Jaffa flea market, with an image of a traditional Passover plate fired onto them using a ceramic decal. Firing them in the kiln also burned away any leftover chametz and prepared them for Passover. We were interested in the idea of taking discarded, forgotten objects and transforming them into precious objects traditionally seen as heirlooms.
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