Fashion Victim #23

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Object Name: 
Vessel
Title: 
Fashion Victim #23
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
85.4.33
Dimensions: 
H: 30.2 cm, D: 45.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass with black, green, yellow and pink paint; cut, ground, sandblasted and painted. Hemisphere; Corning Glass Works commercially produced form with rounded base sliced at an angle laterally with a flat ground rim producing a non-footed, almost hemispherical bowl which because of its angled cut, appears to tilt forward; an interior and exterior design of small dots and geometric radiating "rays" which spiral from the bowl's resting point have been masked, sandblasted and then air-brushes with chartreuse paint leaving unpainted, un- sandpolished spirals bordered with a broken outline of black paint; interior and exterior designs spiral in opposite directions and overlap at various points; interior painted surface has additional random spots of raised paint of varying sizes in bright yellow and "Day-Glo" pink concentrated at the center of the spiral; roughed spot at resting point, no pontil.
Provenance: 
Habatat Galleries Inc., Source
1985-04-08
Glass National
Venue(s)
Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village 1985-03 through 1985-03
Title Unknown (Genseler and Associates)
Venue(s)
Genseler and Associates 1984-11 through 1985-01
 
Christine Robbins Manipulated Glass Forms
Venue(s)
Triton Museum of Art 1984-06 through 1984-07
And You May Ask Yourself -Well... How Did I Get Here? (1984) illustrated, p. 90;