Destruction II

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Object Name: 
Disc
Title: 
Destruction II
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia
Accession Number: 
88.3.43
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.8 cm, W: 18.1 cm, D: 7.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1987
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; cast blank, cut, polished, fractured, engraved. Heavy, solid flattened sphere; center of front cut and polished into a concave lens with 2 1/4" Diam.; back has deeply fractured area slightly off center in the eye area of a large cut and engraved intaglio skull with polished details; lower edge of disc rim is ground flat to form a base; inscribed in script on base: "V. Jeliínek".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Art Centrum, Former Collection
1988
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
cast blank, cut, polished, fractured, engraved
polishing
cut glass

Publications (2)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1988 (1989) p. 7; BIB# AI96381
New Glass Review, 9 (1988) illustrated, p. 16, pl. 31;