Ferocactus

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Ferocactus
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
83.4.151
Dimensions: 
H (a): 21.8 cm, D: 25.8 cm; (b) H: 26.7 cm, D: 40.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1982
Primary Description: 
Olive green with light green and pink spines with black fish hooks in center of each group; blown, lampworked; glass and silicone rubber sealant, ceramic pot, gravel, body form blown glass; silicone rubber sealant applied to glass, glass threads (some lampworked into "fish hooks" inserted into silicone. Ovoid shape, resembling cactus; with gravel and red clay pot

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Perkins, Flo (b. 1951), Source
1983-10-06
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Olive green, light green, pink
olive green
light green
Technique: 
blown, lampworked
Inscription: 
F. Perkins 83
signature
Copyright: 
© Flo Perkins

Publications (2)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 64; BIB# 130418
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 107; BIB# 32803