Dancing Pear Bottle

Object Name2-part Sculpture

Maker Kari Russell-Pool (American, b. 1967)

Made FromNon-lead Glass

Date1993

Place MadeUnited States, NC, Bakersville

TechniqueBlown, lampworked

SizeOverall H: 47.9 cm, Diam: 18.8 cm

Accession Number94.4.28

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass America

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, casing transparent varying shades and mixtures of green, yellow, pink non-lead glasses; pre-fabricated (by the artist) blown fruit and lampworked flowers and leaves, lampworked foliage frame assembled with pre-fabricated parts over gas/oxygen torch. Openwork long-necked cylindrical bottle created of narrow plant stems/vines curving upward in loosely overlapped scallop pattern, stems are punctuated by small regularly-spaced crimped pointed green leaves and fifteen scattered small flowers with six pink crimped and pointed petals surrounding small circular yellow/green center, dark green sepals curl back towards stem; body walls interspersed with five large blown yellow/green speckled pears with short brown stems; frame stems/vines emerge from narrow circular foot; bottle frame sits over a separate foliage ring that forms visual base of bottle, a y-shaped branch with leaves tranverses the ring; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Heller Gallery - 1994-04-11