Sketches

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Object Name: 
4 Sculptures
Title: 
Sketches
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
91.4.63
Dimensions: 
(A) H: 22.4 cm, W: 23.1 cm; (B) H: 15.1 cm, W: 23 cm; (C) H: 15.5 cm, W: 32.5 cm; (D) H: 17 cm, W: 25.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1974
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jean and Martin Mensch
Primary Description: 
Colorless, translucent white inclusions, striations of transparent and translucent orange, amethyst, yellow, red, blue, aqua non-lead glasses, lead coloration; blown, manipulated, cut polished. Four small blown sculptures, each in general form of two or three rotated lobes cased in colorless with elongated tips; sculptures rest on lobe tips and hollow tube extension with ground and polished openings: (A) three lobes, overall white with striations of amethyst, yellow, cobalt, and orange; (B) three lobes, overall colorless, striations of yellow and white; (C) two lobes, overall white with striations of aqua, yellow and amethyst; (D) two lobes, overall white, striations of red, amethyst, blue, and aqua; each inscribed in script on lower side of juncture of lobes: "lipofsky 74"

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Mensch, Jean, Source
1991-09-04
Mensch, Martin, Source
1991-09-04
Color: 
Colorless, yellow, white, mauve
colorless
yellow
white
Technique: 
blown, manipulated, cut, polished
cut glass

Objects in Set (4)

Sketches
Artist:Lipofsky, Marvin
Date:1974
Accession Number:91.4.63 A
Sketches
Artist:Lipofsky, Marvin
Date:1974
Accession Number:91.4.63 B
 
Sketches
Artist:Lipofsky, Marvin
Date:1974
Accession Number:91.4.63 C
Sketches
Artist:Lipofsky, Marvin
Date:1974
Accession Number:91.4.63 D