vase

Object NameVase

Maker Meredith Wenzel

Made FromGlass

Date1981

Place MadeUnited States

TechniqueBlown, engraved, hot-worked

SizeOverall H: 25 cm, D: 15.3 cm

Accession Number81.4.120

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Heller Gallery)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionVase, "Big Purple and Blue Lace". Aquamarine and purple tinted glass; blown, engraved, and then blown and hot-worked in a technique similar to graal. Blown outer vessel is diamond-engraved with pattern on the inside, bubble of glass then blown inside of the outer vessel and the combined pieces are hot-worked. Ovoid shape with tapering conical neck; flat polished rim; aquamarine neck; purple body with pattern of vertical rows of irregular elongated bubbles divided by rows of smaller bubbles; pattern ends just below centerline of vessel; flat polished base and pontil area; signed above base "Meredith Wenzel 1981.", in script.
Provenance

Source Heller Gallery - 1981-07-13