The perfect gifts for the person who has everything!

Creative gifts, unique Fine Art pieces thought with the intention

to offer unique and unusual gifts with affordable prices to everybody.

From jewelry to glass sculptures, light and transparency have always been Maru's inspiration.

The colorful collection will bring some inspiration to your hearts!

RAJAPACK Foldable plywood export boxes

The artist uses a shipping company specialized in Fine Art Transportation: TNT.

Item will be shipped from France in it's custom Rajapack plywood box and wrapped in biodegradable Green Cell Water Resistant Foam (GCE) from Landaal Packaging Systems.

The Artists uses the Foldable plywood export boxes. Plywood boxes are immensely strong and capable of withstanding arduous transportation conditions. They are the ideal case for air-freight due to their low moisture absorption, low weight and immense strength. Plywood boxes are manufactured from 6 mm thick plywood, consisting of a lid, base, and riveted steel, hinged, collapsible frame. Reduced storage costs: in flat form the boxes occupy only 10% of the space of an equivalent ready assembled crate. Flat packed in three parts. Products complying with international regulations ISPM15.

More:

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http://www.rajapack.co.uk

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Shipping prices include plywood box and foam.

Maru's Lunar Cat No.1 "WATCH OUT" is a Grog clay & Vitreous Enamels Sculpture.

Organic in structure, this three dimensional art piece is made of a collection of earthenwares with spirals of transparent energy crystallized by recycled colored glass soldered together with iron and lead threads.

This sculpture has been expertly crafted with technics from the 18th century by Venezuelan-French artist Maru Hernandez who has been recycling and collecting gorgeous multi-colored textured glass bottles for the past 30 years. She has always been inspired by her own cats. The artist has always rescue all the cats that arrive at her door.

Maru's Lunar Cat No.1 stained glass painted porcelain sculpture is perfect a sunny window, or with a back-light as center piece for your living-room, or set in your garden landscape where morning or afternoon sun can really show off it's splendor. Maru's colorful artwork never fail to provoke day dreaming, elicit smiles and interest.

This is a unique piece.

Multicolor © 2012

Colors: Blues, Greys, Browns & White

Dimensions

H 18.5 in - W 15 in - D 39.4 in

H 47 cm - L 38 cm - D 100 cm

SHIPPING

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Lunar Cats No.1 “WATCH OUT”

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GROG CLAY

Grog, also known as firesand and chamotte, is a ceramic raw material. It has high percentage of silica and alumina. It can be produced by firing selected fire clays to high temperature before grinding and screening to specific particle sizes. High grade fire clays can withstand temperatures of 1,775°C (3,227°F). Its melting point is approximately 1,780 °C (3,240 °F). Its water absorption is 7% maximum.

Grog is used in pottery and sculpture to add a gritty, rustic texture called "tooth"; it also reduces shrinkage and aids even drying. This prevents defects such as cracking, crow feet patterning, and lamination. The coarse particles open the green clay body to allow gases to escape. It also adds structural strength to hand-built and thrown pottery during shaping although it can diminish fired strength.

This sculpture has first been baked at 800 °C (1,472 °F), then exposed to wood smoking. The optimal conditions for smoke are low, smoldering temperatures between 570 and 750 °F (299 and 399 °C). This is the temperature of the burning wood itself, not of the smoking environment, which uses much lower temperatures.

In archaeological terminology, 'grog' is crushed fired pottery of any type that is added as a temper to unfired clay. Several pottery types from the European Bronze Age are typologised on the basis of their grog inclusions.

VITREOUS ENAMELS

Vitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,382 and 1,562 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating on metal, and also glass or ceramics. The fired enameled ware is a fully laminated composite of glass and metal.  Enamel may be transparent or opaque when fired. Vitreous enamel has many excellent properties: it is smooth, hard, chemically resistant, durable, scratch resistant (5-6 on the Mohs scale), long-lasting color fastness, easy-to-clean, and cannot burn. Enamel is glass, not paint, so it does not fade with UV light.

Maru’s developed her technics while living in Limoges, enamel capital of France and a famous center of vitreous enamel production. Limoges became famous for champlevé enamels from the 12th century onwards, producing on a large scale, and then from the 15th century retained its lead by switching to painted enamel on flat metal plaques.

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CONTACT

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Los Angeles,

MARU

FRANCE

Veuillez contacter l’artiste pour plus de détails.

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Basse Normandy, France.

maru.artist [at] gmail.com

maru [at] maruhernandez.com

+33 6 95 32 55 96

skype: marulalia

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Unique, signed et numbered. The sculpture is real size.

The sculpture is real size (approx 18.5x15 in / 47x38 cm).

The sculpture is made of Grog, Porcelain, Enamels and recycled glass bottles. Fired at  800°C  / 1472°F degrees and smoked.

Millennium Lands, Water, Air, Fire... Porcelain!!!

DYNAMIC FLOWS OF LIFE ...

Eco-friendly Recycled Glass Sculptor