Images(2)

sculpture

Object NameHedgehog

Maker Vera Lišková (Czech, 1924-1985)

Made FromGlass

Date1972-1980

Place MadeCzechoslovakia, Prague

TechniqueFlameworked

SizeOverall H: 10.8 cm, L: 28.2 cm

Accession Number81.3.11

Credit LineGift of Vera Lišková

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Czechoslovakian Glass 1350-1980

The Magic of the Lamp: Flameworked Objects from the Permanent Collection

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless; flameworked. Porcupine. Body hollow, roughly pear-shape, with narrow end representing snout and with flat underside; quills represented by narrow lampworked tubes which have flattened bulbs at points of attachment to body and are drawn backward: around edge of bottom, nine short quills; above these, many longer quills which cover all of body except snout. Signed: "V. Liªková" in black beneath quill at edge of bottom.
Provenance

Source Vera Lišková (Czech, 1924-1985) - 1981