Junger Kranich/Der kleine Tod/Das Sterbliche der Lust/ Fishing for Death

Title: 
Junger Kranich/Der kleine Tod/Das Sterbliche der Lust/ Fishing for Death

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Title: 
Junger Kranich/Der kleine Tod/Das Sterbliche der Lust/ Fishing for Death
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Federal Republic of Germany
Accession Number: 
86.3.63
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.4 cm, Diam: 6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1983
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass flashed with transparent pink; blown, Czechoslovakian blank, wheel-cut. Narrow, straight-sided cylinder with ground and polished rim; below rim three broad bands; body of cylinder wheel-cut in underwater scene with stylized nude woman tangled in cross-hatched fishing net, left of figure is large bird with linear detailing, scattered fish, bubbles and sea plants; near base another broad band edged with angled-in irregular faceting forming foot; base ground flat and polished; inscribed "Karin" near base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Hof-Grunberg, Marianne, Source
1986-05-02
Color: 
Colorless, flashed transp.pink
colorless
Technique: 
blown, Czechoslovakian blank, wheel-cut

Publications (2)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 144; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861