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Clear Bottle Dipped in Blue

Object NameSculptural Vessel

Maker University of Wisconsin

Maker Joan Falconer Byrd (b. 1939)

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1966

Place MadeUnited States, WI, Madison

Techniqueblown, hot-worked

SizeOverall H: 11.3 cm, W: 13.9 cm, D: 10.3 cm

Accession Number94.4.2

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Decades in Glass: The 60's

Toledo Glass National

On ViewModern Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Blown in shades of amber, blue, and green, these vessels reflect the palette available in the 1960s and early 1970s to American studio glass artists, most of whom batched their own glass. Imported glass colors would not be widely available until the late 1970s.

Physical DescriptionSculptural Vessel, "Clear Bottle Dipped in Blue". Colorless, transparent blue-gray non-lead glasses; blown, hot-worked. Small semi-flattened spherical vessel of colorless, narrow opening with thick lip wrap; two short sides have been dipped in blue-gray glass then tooled forming two small pointed prunts on each side, smaller applications of the colored glass applied to broad sides, then trailed and tooled; base ground flat, rough pontil; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Joan Falconer Byrd (b. 1939) - 1994-02-18