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Organic Vase Form

Object NameVessel

Artist James Pershing Holmes (American, b. 1952)

Studio Chatham Glass Company (f. 1987)

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Date1989

Place MadeUnited States

Techniqueblown, connected while hot

SizeOverall H: 54.4 cm, Diam: 25 cm

Accession Number91.4.2

Credit LineAnonymous Gift

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Billingsgate Gallery)

Title Unknown (Grohe Glass Gallery)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, opaque white, yellow, blue-green, transparent pink and blue non-lead glasses; blown in three bubbles, connected while hot. Vessel with elongated narrow neck and flattened spherical body; irregular neck opening has been ground and polished, neck of colorless overlaid with vertical matte stripes of opaque white, yellow, blue-green and transluscent pink and blue joined hot to body of colorless; decorated over lower two-thirds with "pick-up" decoration of fragments in same colors as neck with rough matte texture; no pontil, base ground and polished flat; inscribed on base in script and block letters: "J.P. Holmes BG89/Organic Vase/Series".
Provenance