Colorless, opal and pink tinted glass; blown and partly molded. Irregular bulbous form divided in center by molded impressions, tapering conical "neck" (approx. 9 cm long); smooth "rim", colorless body of object overlaps "neck" in irregular collar; six stripes in opal canes cased in pink encircle body vertically from below collar (smallest) to center of body (largest); canes are open, showing cross-section of opal and pink, just above base on one side; 5 flattened oval bubbles within colorless glass (approx. 1-3 cm long) occupy area between stripes forming a horizontal row on one side of collar and 5 more form vertical row above and to one side of collar; opal glass inclusion covers top of molded region at base; signed (stipple engraved?) on base of neck "Lipofsky 72".

Marvin Lipofsky, who established studio glass programs at the University of California in Berkeley and at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, visited the Venini glassworks in 1972. He worked for a few days there with Gianni Toso, a master glassblower and flameworker who Lipofsky brought to California to teach for a few months in 1975. The exposure of American studio artists to Italian glass masters dramatically changed the ways in which glassblowing was taught.