sculpture

Object NameVessel

Artist František Vízner (Czech, 1936-2011)

Studio Center for Artistic Craft (UUR)

Made FromGlass

Date1974

TechniqueCased, blown, cut, polished

SizeOverall H: 19.8 cm, Diam: 21.5 cm

Accession Number74.3.109

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Masters of Studio Glass: Frantisek Vizner

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

Place Made

Czechoslovakia, Skrdlovice

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale green, transparent pale yellowish brown glasses; cased, blown, cut, polished. Top of rim slopes down toward mouth and has beveled inner edge; short cylindrical neck which splays outward at bottom and merges with shoulder which has sharp edge; upper part of wall curves downward and outward to carination, also with sharp edge; lower part of body curves downward and inward, and is almost hemispherical; base plain, with concave underside. Green base glass merges with brown near bottom of neck; blue overlay extends from above carination to bottom of wall. Signed with diamond point under base: "VIZNER". Paper label near carination: circular, printed in gold and deep blue: monogram (perhaps UR) within border shaped like ivy leaf.
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