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Object NameDisk Sculpture
Designer Monica Backström (Swedish, b. 1939)
Manufacturer Boda Bruks AB (Swedish)
Made FromGlass
Date1968
Place MadeSweden, Boda
Techniquepoured, with embedded metal foil
SizeOverall H: 4.5 cm, Diam: 22.5 cm
Accession Number78.3.31
Credit LineGift of Harry Dennis, Jr.
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless glass with embedded metal foil; poured. Irregular disk shape; inner disk encloses foil; ring-shape glass form fused to perimeter of surface, and extending above, inner disk; flattened metal (possibly lead) channel trapped between fused disks penetrates side wall; rough flat base; signed on base "Monica Backstrom [in script] BODA SWEDEN - 68 [in upper case block letters]."
Provenance
Source Harry Dennis Jr.