Heads of Men

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Heads of Men
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Novy Bor
Accession Number: 
78.3.48
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.3 cm, Diam (max): 34.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, translucent blue and opaque white enamels; mold-blown, hot-worked, enameled. Straight-walled cylinder, with double-walled upper third, rounded top edge; open center cylinder, with edge ground and polished flat giving doughnut appearance to object; walls of exterior ring enameled in blue and scribed in stylized images of heads, profiles and other facial features, two large patches of white enamel on opposite walls; flat base with central concave circular area; no pontil; inscribed in block letters on base near edge: "JAN ADAM 78".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Art Centrum, Source
1978-12-28
Color: 
Colorless, blue, opaque white
colorless
blue
Technique: 
Mold-blown, hot-worked, enameled
Inscription: 
JAN ADAM 78
signature
: 
base

Exhibitions (2)

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art
 

Publications (3)

Czech and Slovak Glass in Exile (2007) illustrated, p. 90 (right); BIB# 100066
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 160; BIB# 32803
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, pp. 37, 250, #1; BIB# 20603