Equilibrium

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Equilibrium
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands
Accession Number: 
86.3.98
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 32.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Credit Line: 
Gift of Anna Carlgren
Primary Description: 
Transparent aqua and amber non-lead glasses; cast, cut, polished and assembled. Two joined triangles; two thick non-identical obtuse triangles have been sharply cut with angled edges and adhered together to form a wide "V" shape with sloping planes; scattered small seeds; inscribed in script near edge of blue segment "A. Carlgren 86".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Carlgren, Anna (b. 1960), Source
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Transparent aqua, amber
Technique: 
cast, cut, polished and assembled
casting
cut glass
Inscription: 
A. Carlgren 86
signature
Copyright: 
© Anna Carlgren

Publications (2)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 72; BIB# 130418
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 212; BIB# 32803