sculpture

Object NameSculptural Vessel

Maker Pavel Hlava (Czech, 1924-2003)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1965

Place MadeCzechoslovakia, Novy Bor

TechniqueCased and blown in a wire net

SizeOverall H: 83.5 cm, W: 22.9 cm, D: 21.5 cm

Accession Number74.3.75

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004

Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978

On ViewModern Gallery

Physical DescriptionSculptureal Vessel. Transparent orange, yellow, light green, amber, cobalt blue cased in colorless glass; blown in a wire net. Tall columnar bottle with narrow opening, beveled lip (possibly ground and polished), short swollen neck of cobalt, angled narrow shoulder formed of heavy gather of orange-amber fading to yellow-green of body walls blown through wire mold leaving overall grid patterning of bubbles in varying degrees of inflation (three main bands of larger bubbles at mid-section), towards shoulder and base pattern appears more like "quilting", color becomes yellow-orange again towards flattened base; parts of base ground and polished flat, no pontil; inscribed on base: "P. Hlava/Czechoslovakia/ (logo of overlapping PH)".
Provenance

Source Art Centrum