Egg

Object NameScent Bottle with Stopper on Stand

Artist Frederick Birkhill (American, 1951 - 2023)

Made Fromglass, gold, silver,brass

Date1987

Techniqueflamework

SizeH: 7.7 cm, D(max): 4.7 cm

Accession Number87.4.51

Credit LineGift of Gail P. Bardhan

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

The Studio at 20

Place Made

United States, MI, Pinckney

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with polychrome fused glass shards, gold and silver leaf, brass stand; flamework. Stoppered egg on three-legged wire stand; egg-shaped hollow body with concave opening rim; body decorated with fragments of gold and silver leaf overlaid with transparent shards of various colors forming a patchwork pattern; tip of egg ground flat; flame worked solid drop stopper; object sits in brass wire stand formed from a circle attached to three concave curved legs; inscribed in script near base: "Frederick Birkhill 1987".
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