sculpture

Object NameVessel

Artist Christine Robbins

Made FromNon-lead glass, paint

Date1984

TechniqueCut, ground, sandblasted, painted

SizeH: 30.2 cm, D: 45.6 cm

Accession Number85.4.33

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass National

Title Unknown (Genseler and Associates)

Christine Robbins Manipulated Glass Forms

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with black, green, yellow and pink paint; cut, ground, sandblasted and painted. Hemisphere; Corning Glass Works commercially produced form with rounded base sliced at an angle laterally with a flat ground rim producing a non-footed, almost hemispherical bowl which because of its angled cut, appears to tilt forward; an interior and exterior design of small dots and geometric radiating "rays" which spiral from the bowl's resting point have been masked, sandblasted and then air-brushes with chartreuse paint leaving unpainted, un- sandpolished spirals bordered with a broken outline of black paint; interior and exterior designs spiral in opposite directions and overlap at various points; interior painted surface has additional random spots of raised paint of varying sizes in bright yellow and "Day-Glo" pink concentrated at the center of the spiral; roughed spot at resting point, no pontil.
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