sculpture

Object NameSculpture

Maker Vladimir Sergeyevich Muratov (b. 1929)

Maker Gus-Khrustalny Glassworks

Made FromLead Glass

Date1989

Place MadeU.S.S.R.

Techniqueblown and hot-worked

SizeH: 17.6 cm, L: 33 cm, W: 15.5 cm

Accession Number91.3.8

Credit LineGift of Vladimir Muratov

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Russian Glass of the 17th-20th Centuries

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent cobalt lead glass; blown and hot-worked. Heavy abstracted tear-shape sculpture of bird with folded wings and head curved back towards body; body comprised of central egg-shaped bubble of cobalt with three applied heavy elongated bubbles (upper one is open at tip/tail, rim ground and polished) forming wings and upper body, breast and head is one thick hot-worked colorless mass; base ground and polished flat; inscribed on base (Cyrillic letters): "Suypamo8 M (in circle) 89/(outline profile of flying duck-symbol of Gus factory)".
Provenance

Source Vladimir Sergeyevich Muratov (b. 1929)