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Object NameSculpture in 2 Parts

Artist Aiko Ueshima (Japanese, b. 1957)

Made FromNon-lead Glass

Date1986

Techniqueblown, hot formed, cut, laminated

Size(Aab) H: 59.7 cm, Diam: 22.9 cm; (Bab) H: 58.6 cm, Diam: 22.9 cm

Accession Number88.6.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass '87 in Japan

Place Made

Japan, Saitama-ken, Asaka

Physical DescriptionColorless, opal, transparent blue, gray, green, violet, yellow and amber, opaque blue and orange non-lead glasses; blown, hot formed, cut, laminated. Unidentical pair of plantlike forms; each component consists of a large, hollow, spherical bubble (one amethyst/yellow, one opalescent/amber) with a narrow opening on the top; into the opening is placed a stylized stem and root consisting of a vertical length of smoked glass, tapered at the top and decorated with a pair of applied green "leaf" knops, base of stem is laminated to a solid knop that rests on the opening of the bubble; to the bottom of knop is laminated a spiraling solid length (orange sits in amethyst bubble, blue in amber bubble) that hangs within the sphere, almost touching the interior base; base ground flat; inscribed in script on base of each bubble: "A. Ueshima".
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