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Katharine Coleman MBE
G L A S S E N G R A V E R
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Yellow Waterlily III 16cm diameter yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished, wheel engraved 2011. On separate glass support. Recently sold by The Scottish Gallery at my solo exhibition, 2 -24 Dec 2011. Contact Christina Jansen www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
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Haeckel Green Flustra Bowl 8cm high x 16.4cm diameter green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished, wheel engraved 2012. One of several pieces inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th Century German zoologist and engraver. Available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. www.adriansassoon.com
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Heliotrope Haeckel Diatomea Bowl 9.5cm h x 16cm diameter heliotrope or purple glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished, wheel engraved 2012. One of several pieces inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th Century German zoologist and engraver. Available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. www.adriansassoon.com
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Haeckel Grey Rhapidozoum Vase 10cm diam x 30.5cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011. One of several pieces inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th Century German zoologist and engraver. Available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, www.adriansassoon.com
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Haeckel Gold Flustra Ovule 11.5cm long x 8.5cm diameter yellow
glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter
Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2012. Inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, 19th Century zoologist whose illustrations of planktons, diatoms and minute plant forms such as the flustra inspired many artists and architects at the turn of the 20th Century. This piece is available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, www.adriansassoon.com
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Haeckel Diatomaea Vase IV
27.4cm
high x 8cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal
vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished
and wheel engraved 2012. Ernst Haeckel published many drawings of planktons and diatomaea in the 1890s which have inspired artworks ever since. Available from Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon www.adriansassoon.com
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Sakura II Vase
3.7kg, 28cm high x 9.5cm diameter
ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter
Morgan
On show and for sale at Contemporary Applied Arts with the British Heart Foundation "Target the Heart" from 20th January 2012. Contact Imogen Grey www.caa.org.uk
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Haeckel Gold Flustra 13cm diam x 6.5cm high rich yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011. One of several pieces inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th Century German zoologist and engraver. Sold by The Scottish Gallery at my solo exhibition in December 2011. For further information please contact Christina Jansen www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
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Haeckel Starfish 15.2cm diam x 17.4cm high bluey smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Sonja Klingler. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011. One of several pieces inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th Century German zoologist and engraver. On show and for sale at Under the Sea at Museums Sheffield:
Millennium Gallery from 25th Jan - 10 Jun 2012. Contact: Rowena
Hamilton, Exhibitions Curator - Craft & Design, tel: +44 (0)114
278 2754
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Haeckel IV Diatom (Heliotrope)
18cm
diameter x 9cm high heliotrope glass overlaid on clear lead crystal
vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished
and wheel engraved 2011. Ernst Haeckel published many drawings of planktons and diatomaea in the 1890s which have inspired artworks ever since. Recently sold by The Scottish Gallery at my solo exhibition in December 2011. For further information please contact Christina Jansen www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
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Haeckel Ruby feather Star VI
7.5cm
high x 12cm diameter ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal
vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished
and wheel engraved 2011. Ernst Haeckel published many drawings of planktons and diatomaea in the 1890s which have inspired artworks ever since. Recently sold by The Scottish Gallery at my solo exhibition in December 2011. For further information please contact Christina Jansen www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
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Haeckel Rhapidozoum Ovule
14.5cm
high x 11cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal
ovule, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished
and wheel engraved 2011. Ernst Haeckel published many drawings of planktons and diatomaea in the 1890s which have inspired artworks ever since. Recently sold by The Scottish Gallery at my solo exhibition in December 2011. For further information please contact Christina Jansen www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
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Haeckel Diatom Paperweights, Yellow & Orange
7.8cm
high & 10cm hgih copper ruby over yellow and orange glass overlaid on clear
optical glass, blown to my design in 2004 by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished,
drill and wheel engraved 2011. Ernst Haeckel published many drawings of planktons and diatomaea in the 1890s which have inspired artworks ever since. TThese will be on show and for sale with the Guild of Glass Engravers' exhibition at Johansfors www.gge.org.uk
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Stormy Seas Vase 9cm diameter x 14cm high aquamarine glass overlaid on clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished, wheel engraved 2011. At the age of six, I was taught to write with a dip pen and ink and we had to do endless exercises in joined up patterns to get used to joined up writing. This is the pattern for the letter 'c', hence the pun in the title. Recently sold by Contemporary Applied Arts, www.caa.org.uk
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Haeckel Gold Flustra Ovule 8cm
high x 16.4cm diameter green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal,
blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel
engraved 2012. Inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, 19th Century zoologist whose illustrations of planktons, diatoms and minute plant forms such as the flustra inspired many artists and architects at the turn of the 20th Century. This piece is available for sale with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, www.adriansassoon.com
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Sakura Paperweight
7cm
high x 6.4cm diameter ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal
paperweight, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and
wheel engraved 2010. A similar piece is for sale with Contemporary Applied Arts. www.caa.org.uk
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Little Limes Bowl II 14cm diameter x 8cm high lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, www.adriansassoon.com
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White Camelia Vase 4.55kg, 32cm high x 9cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011. Japanese green tea is made from a white flowering camellia bush, which looks beautiful in flower. The tea itself is bright emerald as well.
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Goldfishbowls VI 16cm high x 9cm diameter ruby over gold glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished & wheel engraved 2009.
A similar piece was recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. www.adriansassoon.com
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Ghetto
15cm diameter, 6.2cm high (weight ca. 2.6kg) smoke grey glass overlay on clear lead crystal form, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2010. The top and base of this piece have been polished, but the shape of the interior presents a different refraction from the one you can see on the piece "Small Broken China Bowls III" below. In "Ghetto" there is no refraction on the outside of the inner surface - like a blank wall. The town surrounds the little inner ghetto which in turn faces in on itself, with no exit in sight. The buildings are the same as the buildings that surround it.
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Haeckel III
Amber overlaid clear lead crystal ovule, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2010. Size: 8 x 8x9cm.
This piece was sold at Collect at the Saatchi Galleries, London by The Scottish Gallery in May 2011.
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Linden Vase
4.6kg, 32.3cm high x 9.4cm diam olive green over yellow glass double overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011. This piece was sold at TEFAF at Maastricht 2011 by Adrian Sassoon. www.adriansassoon.com
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La Défense Three vases, tallest 23cm high, grey over green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Inspired by the towering glass bank buildings surrounding La Grande Arche in Paris, these pieces illustrate the dramatic change in modern banking, from the solid stone-built fortresses for the defence of hard currency to today's questionably transparent, elegant towers, as fragile as their newly chosen exteriors. This piece was sold at the 12th Annual Glass Now Auction at The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2011.
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Wheels Within Wheels 32cm x 9.7 cm x 9.7cm smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished, wheel and drill engraved 2010. The engraved wheel motif on the outside surface was polished so that the cut wheels refracted inside the vase and on the far side remain visible. Not only are there more wheels refracted on the inside surface, this time, I am also exploring the possibilities of looking at designs through each other on the whole body of the vase. This vase was recently sold.
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Flowering
Rushes Plate Recently sold by Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London W1. www.caa.org.uk
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Orange Bowls 16cm diam x 8cm high ruby over yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Inspired by Edo period ceramics in Japan seen in 2004 and 2005, also by the respect, care and seasonality of food presentation in Japan, this bowl is engraved in a contemporary fashion.
This piece was recently sold.
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Small Broken China Bowls
III
14.5cm
high x 13.5cm diameter blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal,
blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished, wheel
engraved lead crystal bowl. The piece isn't broken, it's engraved as if it were a bowl made up of pieces from several different broken bowls all stuck together. It was inspired by heap of broken china from the wreck of a 14th Century Chinese junk off the coast of Japan seen in a museum near Tokyo. Curators are always so keen to stick things together.
This piece was recently sold.
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City By Moonlight 10cm high, 7.2cm diameter, grey overlaid clear lead crystal paperweight blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007
This piece was recently sold. It also illustrated in NEW GLASS REVIEW 2008.
A similar piece won second prize at the 5th International Symposium for Engraving on Glass at Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic, September 2008 and is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Glass at Kamenicky Senov.
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The Crown Princess Takes Tea 12.5cm diam x 8.5cm high bowl, 4cm diam x 9.5cm high vase and 4cm diam x 2cm high lid stand, all in emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. Materials for an imaginary informal summer tea ceremony made with engraved glass. The tea bowl for the Crown Princess is semi-solid. Refracted in the middle is a miniature bowl, a little clone of herself, her small daughter. She lacks a son; that this may not be her fault is not questioned. She sits in the Imperial Palace appearing to take tea, but she cannot drink out of such a bowl, so she cannot participate in society. Tea is at the heart of Japanese society. The Princess has chosen a design of cooling green camellia leaves and white camellia flowers, the plant from which Japanese tea is made. The lid stand is a reference to the ring stand for the hot lid of the water boiler. This piece was sold by the Scottish Gallery at Collect at the Saatchi Galleries, London in May 2010 to the Norwich City Museum.
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UPtownDOWNtown Bowl 17cm diameter smoke greeny grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, wheel engraved 2009. If you flip the image of this piece vertically, its name becomes self explanatory. This piece was sold by the Scottish Gallery at Collect at the Saatchi Galleries, London May 2010.
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City Blocks Vase, 28cm high, thin grey/green overlaid clear lead crystal vase blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
Cities often seem to have more buildings than people in them. These people are both sociable and isolated. The view inside the vase of both the outside engraved pattern and the inner refracted pattern gives further interest. The countless windows permit one to look both in and out.
This piece won the inaugural Glass Sellers Prize for Engraving on Glass 2007 and was selected for "Side by Side", the Contemporary Glass Society's 10th anniversary exhibition in 2007.
This piece was sold at my recent solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon, 750006 Paris, France in 2009.
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Little Grey Fishbowls III 12cm
diam x 8cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown
to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved
2009. I like the contrast between the matt cut surface on the
outside and the dark, wet greys when viewed from inside the bowl. The
refracted images of fish which appear on the inside
of the inner bubble seem to move when you move the bowl, the
refractions not being fixed at all. Using transparent glass, one can
see the outer engraved surface and its inner side through the polished
top surface, then the refractions, inside and out on the inside
bubble. Glass is a miraculous material and I feel that as engravers we
have barely started to examine its fulll potential. This piece was sold at my solo exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon, 750006 Paris, France in October 2009
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Grey Utsuri Vase III 9cm
diam x 25cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystalvase, blown
to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved
2009. As with the grey fishbowls, I like the contrast between the matt cut surface on the
outside and the dark, wet greys when viewed from inside the bowl.
Small polished cuts on the outside (so much part of wine glass
decoration of the last centuries) appear as bubbles and allow one to
look in and observe further miniscule fish within - only they are not
really there, just a refraction from outside. Glass is a miraculous material and I feel that as engravers we
have barely started to examine its full potential. This piece was recently sold at "Handmade", an exhibition of craft work curated by Jane Carr at Fortnum & Mason's, London in 2010 through Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. Contact: email@adriansassoon.com or tel: +44 (0)20 7581 9888 |
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Yellow Corals 18cm diameter x 15cm high, opaque canary yellow overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to artist's design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
This piece was recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon. email@adriansassoon.com
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Red Corals II 14.5cm high x 14cm diameter semi opaque red overlaid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Carl Nordbruch. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2008.
This piece was sold at Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London in October 2008 |
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Waltzing Crabs 15cm diameter x 17.5cm high smoke grey over laid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Carl Nordbruch. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2008.
This piece was recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, contact: +44 (0)20 7581 9888 www.adriansassoon.com
It won The 2008 Pearsons Prize for Best Use of Engraving on Glass, sponsored by Ed Hoy's International, USA. |
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Green Barnacles Vase (left) 26cm high x 16cm wide vase with colour overlays: opaque green overlaid on opaque white on clear and one more layer of opaque white with opaque white applications, blown to my design and with my assistance by Potter Morgan Glass. Drill engraved and stained, 2007.
Inspired by celadon ware found in a 14th Century Chinese wreck off Japan.
Yellow Barnacles vase (right) 26cm high x 13cm wide vase, with colour overlays: opaque canary yellow overlaid on opaque white overlaid on clear and a further layer of opaque white, with opaque white applications, blown to my design and with my assistance by Potter Morgan Glass. Drill engraved and stained, 2007.
Inspired by Chinese ceramics found in a 14th Century Chinese wreck off Japan.
Yellow Barnacles was sold at The Scottish Gallery, and Green Barnacles sold at my showcase at Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London in October 2008. |
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Singing Sardines 1 14cm high x 8.5cm diameter blue over aqua overlaid clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished & wheel engraved 2007.
This piece was sold at my solo exhibition at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh in July 2008.
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Stargazies II 9cm long grey overlaid lead crystal ovule, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.
Named after the Cornish "Stargazey Pie", where small pilchards are placed in the pie dish so that their heads stick up through the pastry top. In this piece the fish tails meet to make a star (which can be seen in the refraction).
This piece was recently sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon +44 (0)207 581 9888. |
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City of Glass, five pieces, 26cm high, 16cm high, 11cm, 10cm and 8cm high, all 7.2cm diameter, grey over green overlaid clear lead crystal vases and paperweights, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2006.
Inspired by the buildings of the City of London. Window glass is greenish in colour; the buildings are recognisable by the pattern of their windows much as a face is read first by the eyes. The three smaller pieces are paperweights with highly polished bases, allowing the window pattern to continue to refract down inside the base.
This piece was sold 2008. |
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Meiji Flower, 18cm diameter 12cm high gold overlaid clear glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2006.
This piece was selected for and sold at the 2006 Dudley British Glass Biennale show. |
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Edo Orange II, 18cm diameter ruby over gold overlaid glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004
(illustrated on acrylic ring stand)
It was selected for the finalists' exhibition for the Coburger Glaspreis 2006 at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg and acquired by the Neumann Collection.
A similar piece has been acquired by the V&A Museum. A third was acquired by Dan Klein Associates and has recently been donated by them to the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh where it will be on show from May 2011 in A Passion for Glass. |
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Chiyoda-ku, 24 cm diameter gold overlaid bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin, cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004.
This bowl represents Tokyo, the heart of Japan, with central Chiyoda-Ku, with its beautiful gardens and the Imperial Palace suspended in its centre.
This piece won an Honourable Mention Prize at the Coburger Glaspreis 2006 and was acquired by the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg. It is inow on display in the new contemporary glass museum at Rosenau near Coburg, Germany. |
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Stormy Seas
5 cm diameter x 5cm high aquamarine glass overlaid on clear lead crystal cylindrical bead, blown to my design, cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004.
Commissioned by Diana East for her travelling exhibition of beads inspired by the theme of "The Tempest"
This piece is a pun, the pattern is based on a writing exercise at primary school I endured when learning to write in joined-up hand with a dip-pen and ink, a series of lower case letter "c".
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Synchronised Swimmers, 12cm high blue overlaid vase, blown to my design by Patrick Stern, cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2006
A similar piece was exhibited at "Blue-White, White-Blue", an exhibition of the Galerie Handwerk, from 18 June to 1 August 2009, Handwerkskammer Fuer Muenchen und Oberbayern, Munich, Germany.
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China China, 12cm high paperweight, ruby over gold overlaid glass blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2002 |
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