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Object Name: 
Object
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Novy Bor
Accession Number: 
99.3.48
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 33.44 cm, W: 23.4 cm, D: 24.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1961
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Steinberg Foundation
Primary Description: 
Object. Transparent turquoise glass; blown, hot-worked. Almost spherical body on 3 applied eyes; body decorated with 6 applied bulbous shapes and 6 cylindrical shapes and 2 distorted donut-like shapes.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
The Steinberg Foundation, Source
1999-12-29
Color: 
turquoise
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
applied
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
SF 352
Label
: 
Side
ROUBICEK 1969
Signature and date
: 
Between legs
Copyright: 
© Rene Roubicek

Exhibitions (2)

Decades in Glass: The 60's
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-11-17 through 2006-04-02
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2006-07-12 through 2007-01-06
Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-05-16 through 2002-10-21
National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library 2003-02-28 through 2003-09-28
Corning Incorporated Gallery
 

Publications (7)

Czech Glass 1945-1980 Design in an Age of Adversity (Journal of Antiques and Collectibles) (June 2005) illustrated, p. 47, upper left; BIB# AI65719
Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012 (2012) illustrated, p. 91, plate 47, p. 188; BIB# 130144
Smashing science projects about Earth's rocks and minerals (2008) illustrated, p. 16; BIB# 103074
Glass Struggle (2005-10) illustrated
Clearly Unique: Czech glass breaks rules behind Iron Curtain (2003-02-16) illustrated, p. 1;
Title Unknown (Tvar) (1966) p. 116;
Title Unknown (Tvar) (1964) p. 269-270;