Spring Head

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Spring Head
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Austria, Baden bei Wien
Accession Number: 
84.3.228
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 39.2 cm, W: 20 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Primary Description: 
Colorless, light green, and blue glasses; blown. Cylindrical shape, bulbous at closed top, applied eyes, mouth, ear, and hair, stylized enameled metal flowers attached to inner wall; signed on back: "Hank Murta Adams BADEN #8 "SPRING HEAD".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Adams, Hank Murta (American, b. 1956), Source
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, light green, blue
colorless
light green
Technique: 
blown; enameled metal flowers
Inscription: 
Hank Murta Adams Baden #8 "Spring Head"
signature
Copyright: 
© Hank Murta Adams

Publications (4)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 86; BIB# 130418
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, pp. 98-99; BIB# 32803
Recent Important Acquisitions, 27 (1985) illustrated, p. 111, #50; BIB# AI15253
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) p. 7; BIB# AI96385