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bowl

Object NameBowl

Maker Bogdan Valko

Made Fromsoda-lime glass

Date1988

Place MadeU.S.S.R.

Techniqueblown into a mold, sandblasted "pick-up", cut

SizeH: 12.7 cm, D: 22 cm

Accession Number88.3.37

Credit LineGift of Fidall Ibragimov

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTransparent light blue (almost colorless), translucent cobalt, red, opaque white soda-lime glasses; blown into a mold, sandblasted "pick-up" decoration, cut rim, polished. Low wide bowl with flat, cut quatrefoil rim; lower half of walls and base decorated with designs of color layered in various orders; motif consists of central full-length figure of a glassblower in sandblasted white overlaid with cobalt; figure flanked on right side globular shape topping an abstracted Soviet national flag, topping the letters CCCP, topping another globular shape; figures left side flanked with globular shape, topping U.S. national flag, topping the letters USA, topping another globular shape; base is rounded, no foot, no pontil; inscribed on base: "Moscow/USSR/Ibragimov (in script)/88".
Provenance

Source Fidall Ibragimov (b. 1938)