bottle

Object NameBottle

Artist Jesper Kerrn-Jesperson (Danish, b. 1947)

Made FromGlass, Cork

Date1978

Place MadeDenmark, Birkerod

Technique(a) Body blown in mold; (c) Cork machined

SizeOverall H: 23.3 cm, W: 7.9 cm

Accession Number83.3.247

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBottle. (a) Colorless glass, with translucent blue inclusions, cork; (a) body blown in mold (colorless gather partly inflated; streaks of blue applied to parison; more colorless collected on parison; parison then inflated in full-size mold); (c) cork machined. (a) Bottle: square. Rim everted, with rounded lip; neck cylindrical, splaying at bottom; shoulder rounded, with clear change of profile at top of second gather; wall vertical; base plain, slightly hollow underneath, with faint molded ridges dividing it into nine equal squares; annular pontil mark consisting of four arcs, with monogram "JK" scratched at center. (b) Cork has disk-shaped top and truncated conical shank.
Provenance

Source Jesper Kerrn-Jesperson (Danish, b. 1947) - 1978-1983-12-22