Colibri (series title)

Object NameClock and Mechanics

Maker Seguso Vetri d'Arte Glassworks

Maker Federica Marangoni (Italian, b. 1940)

Made Fromglass, quartz clockwork

Date1984

Place MadeItaly

Techniquefree hand shaped, ground, polished

SizeH: 13.4 cm, L: 14.1 cm, W: 12 cm

Accession Number85.3.29

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass with red, black, blue and teal inclusions over opaque white; hot-worked, ground and polished, inserted metal and plastic clockwork. Free-hand formed hollow lump of colorless in an irregular spherical shape with slightly flattened sides, rounded corners, flattened frond and swelling back; colorless with inclusions of four red spots of varying sizes, black hooked stripe, two blue spots and two teal parallel lines which encircle front face opening; colorless is laid over a hollow ovoid center of pale gray translucent opal; centered front face opening has been ground and polished into a circle; commercially manufactured clock workings with chrome border, white face with red, blue, black and green hour dots, blue-green and red hands and black lettering; works fit into circular opening in glass and are held in place by three prongs; base has been ground and polished into a flat oval; unsigned on glass, clock marked in block letters "FEDRA-Design/quartz" above center.
Provenance

Source Portnoy Gallery - 1985-05-06