sculpture

Object NameSculptural Vessel with Stopper

Designer Markku Salo

Made FromGlass, Metal

Date1990

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

Markku Salo: Lasia = Glass

Title Unknown (Gallerie Bellarte)

Place Made

Finland

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".
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