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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Novy Bor
Accession Number: 
2005.3.18
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 55 cm, W: 24.3 cm, D: 21.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1971
Web Description: 
This sculpture was part of the collection of early modern glass assembled by Harvey Littleton, the “father” of American studio glass. He used the collection to teach his students about glassworking processes.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Littleton, Harvey K. (American, 1922-2013), Source
2005-03-09
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
amber
orange
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
Roubicek / 1971
Signature and date
: 
Engraved Lower body
Copyright: 
© Rene Roubicek

Description

Primary Description: 
Transparent amber-orange glass; blown and hot-worked. Abstract "vertical" sculpture with tripod base formed of asymmetrical pulled and pinched glass "leaves" around a central hollow shaft.

Publications (5)

Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008) illustrated, p. 15, 60-61 (fig. 20, plate 6); BIB# 107478
Recent Important Acquisitions (2006) illustrated, p. 122; BIB# AI98523
Recent Acquisitions (2005) illustrated, p. 13, bottom (middle); BIB# AI66556
Sklo = Glass / Miluse Roubickova, Rene Roubicek (1999) illustrated, pp. 58, 66; BIB# 63407
Contemporary Art Glass (1975) p. 87; BIB# 27552