sculpture

Object NameSculpture

Maker N. V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Glasfabriek Leerdam

Maker Floris Meydam (Dutch, 1919-2011)

Made FromGlass

Date1977

Place MadeNetherlands

Techniqueblown, applied, cased, manipulated

SizeH: 16.8 cm, D: 20.3 cm

Accession Number78.3.11

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, opaque white and opaque yellow glasses; colorless gather inflated slightly, partly dipped in white and yellow, marvered and inflated further, cased in colorless, re-inflated and manipulated, and cracked off; foot-rim ground and polished. Sculpture: hollow cylinder, open at bottom. Top pushed in to form deep conical well; wall vertical; foot-rim plain, ground and polished. Decorated on interior of well with one large, roughly circular patch of white which covers bottom and lower sides of well and extends to top of well at one point, and one smaller, roughly circular patch which overlies white. Signature at bottom of wall, scratched with diamond: "LEERDAM UNICA MAE 96L. FMeydam" (signature is cursive).
Provenance

Source N. V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Glasfabriek Leerdam - 1978-03-13