Frosted Radio Light

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Frosted Radio Light
Accession Number: 
87.4.41
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 48.4 cm, W: 53.5 cm, D: 30 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Credit Line: 
Gift in part of Mike Belkin
© Paul Seide
Primary Description: 
Striated shades of transparent purple and orange cased in colorless soda-lime glass, neon, mercury vapor, radio transmitter; glass is blown and cased, hot-worked. Interlocking looped spirals; large and small 1 1/2 turn spirals that interlock and rest vertically with ends curling upward; ends taper from thin to thick which has been ground flat; sections sit on radio field transmitter that activates enclosed gases; inscribed on broad flat ends of both sections: "Seide".
Provenance: 
Belkin, Mike, Source
1987-04-18
Heller Gallery, Source
1987-04-18
Category: 
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show