Primary Description:
Colorless and black 8% lead glasses, metallic silver and bronze, aquamarine; blown black glass, marvered with silver-leaf, engraved with dental tools after annealing, copper electroplating, patinated, pâte de verre base, sandblasted, assembled with UV adhesive (bronze fish to cone, to patty, to body, base to body), cast bronze fish. Tall elongated hollow shape with tapered closed rounded top, topped with colorless matte patty and small solid cone (almost completely covered in silver-leaf) tipped with a solid bronze fish with aquamarine patination; overall decoration on body of fused silver-leaf stylized linear fish (with teeth) with engraved details swimming mainly in one direction between jagged mountains, copper electroplated background, "back side" has broad areas of un-electroplated silver (with aqua coloration showing through silver) at base and smaller sections at middle and top; body rests on solid matte colorless circular base pad with pattern of circular indentations and four short solid matte feet; no pontil; inscribed in script near base edge: "91 Yamano Hiroshi".