Emergence

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Emergence
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Mexico, Mexico City
Accession Number: 
87.5.1
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 32.7 cm, W: 14.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Primary Description: 
Colorless, amethyst non-lead glasses; cast in a metal mold, ground, polished. Solid hemispherical column with ground and polished top and base; upper third has inclusion of large torn spherical inclusion covered with minute bubbles caused by particles of sand, surrounded by vertical included strips of amethyst and colorless flaring from the base; overall minute air traps concentrated towards base; inscribed in script on back lower right "Thiel 1986".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Thiel, Ana (b. 1958), Former Collection
1986
to
1987-04-06
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, Amethyst
colorless
Technique: 
cast, ground, polished
casting
ground glass
Inscription: 
Thiel 1986
Signature and date
: 
on reverse toward lower right corner

Publications (5)

Casting Poetic Sentiment: Glass Art Creation Methodology (2008) illustrated, p. 179, fig. 225; BIB# 107146
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 230; BIB# 32803
El Mundo Fascinate y Candente de la Escultura en Vidrio, de Ana Thiel (1987-05-07) C 9;
Una Escuttura de Vidrio de Ana Thiel, a un museu de Neuva York (1987-04-20) B, p. 1;
The Culture Watch (1987-04-20) B, p. 16;