Physalia

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Physalia
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
82.4.6
Dimensions: 
H: 32.2 cm, L: 45.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1982
Primary Description: 
Orange, red, black and blue tinted glass; blown, fused, with applied bits, sandblasted. Form resembles abstract sea- creature; irregular circular orange disk with translucent multicolored rim area and sandblasted dotted line ending in arrow -- on top surface; tubular "body", fused on underside of disk, red with black decoration, the black sandblasted matte in rings and stripes; applied blue tinted bit half way down body opens, exposing interior of tubular "body". Signed along body "S. Dee Edwards/1982/21.", in script.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Heller Gallery, Source
1982-02-12
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Orange, red, blac, blue tinted
colorless
orange
red
Technique: 
blown, fused, with applied bits, sandblasted
molding
Copyright: 
© Stephen Dee Edwards

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Heller Gallery)
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery 1982 through 1982

Publications (4)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 76; BIB# 130418
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 137, #137; BIB# 35679
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 85; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 3; BIB# 2318