sculpture

Object NameSculptural Vessel with Stopper

Designer Markku Salo

Made FromGlass, Metal

Date1990

Place MadeFinland

TechniqueBlown into fabricated net, acid-etched

SizeOverall H: 100 cm, Base W: 56.5 cm

Accession Number92.3.13

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Gallerie Bellarte)

Markku Salo: Lasia = Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTranslucent pale amber cased in colorless with narrow alternating red and green (very faint) stripes, metal rod and net, acrylic neck on stopper; glass with pick-up cane decoration blown into fabricated net; acid-etched. (a) Tall free-standing sculptural object consisting of vertical rectangular (tapering in towards top) hemmed flat envelope of wire mesh; mesh is bound to and supported on three sides by narrow black wire frame standing on two perpendicular feet at lower corners; broad sides of mesh are joined together except at narrow opening at top separated to form a cavity into which a long glass bottle has been blown, openings in mesh surrounding vessel have been widened at regular intervals to form a dot gridwork; bottle is irregular ovoid in shape with two-tiered shoulder of heavily cased pale amber with striped decoration, extended tubular neck with flattened lipless opening; (b) bottle is topped with a flanged stopper with silvered dome; overall matte surface; inscribed in script around flat surface of neck opening: "Nuutajärvi Notsjo Markku Salo 1990".
Provenance

Source Iittala Glassworks (f. 1881) - 1992-01-20