Red Flower

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Red Flower
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Accession Number: 
84.3.1
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 32.4 cm, W: 63.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1980
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Corning Glass Center
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass, transparent red/pink details, borosilicate, paint or stain; flameworked, painted or stained. Free-form hollow sculpture of a wide flower blossom with extending asymmetrical petals, some are detailed on ends with clusters of stamped circles divided into wedges, straight "stem" extends from center area and swells at end to a small sphere which is covered with applied and pulled elongated prunts with curved ends, tip of each prunt is brushed with pink; object rests various points; near base rectangular white paper label with typed "74458"; in black script on an extended point near base: "V. Liºková".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Corning Glass Center, Former Collection
1984
Color: 
Colorless, transp. red/pink
colorless
Technique: 
flameworked, painted or stained