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sculpture

Object NameSculptural Vessel

Series

Alien Torso

Artist Thomas C. Robertson (b. 1955)

Studio Pratt Fine Arts Center

Made Fromnon-lead and lead glass

Date1986

Place MadeUnited States

Technique"Heart" hot-formed, placed in lehr, cased, blown

SizeH: 31 cm, W: 15.5 cm, D: 15.5 cm

Accession Number88.4.2

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass, translucent lavender, white, pink/orange, opaque orange, black lead glasses; copper patinated black; "Heart" hot-formed, placed in lehr, vessel cased and blown into copper cage, sheared, "heart" applied hot. Tall cylindrical vessel that has been altered by blowing--lavender, cased in white, cased in pink/orange cased in colorless--into a copper cage (consisting of two vertical bands--front and back--connected by multiple horizontal wires) producing effect of horizontal ribbing; while puntied, rim edged with wide irregular orange wrap, vessel sheared open from rim halfway through wide front copper band; small hot-formed heart organ with four intertwined aortae, of opaque white with pink criss-crossed threading, "picked-up" black glass powders and pink and white concentric murrini, cased in colorless with colorless rim wraps, attached while hot to interior wall, near rim, opposite vertical cut; exterior finish; base ground flat, rough pontil; inscribed in script near at base: "TC Robertson 86".
Provenance

Source Thomas C. Robertson (b. 1955) - 1988-02-03