Primary Description:
Colorless 24% lead glass; blown bubble, rim cut by hand with a diamond router, diamond-wheel engraved. Tear-drop shaped bubble sculpture asymmetrically decorated with six large engraved nude figures (three pairs with clasped hands) in various postures dancing in a circle; tapered end of bubble, where it was broken off of the blow pipe, is cut-out to form an irregular opening following the configuration of heads, shoulders and outstretched arms; bodies are stylized and elongated with some musculature delineated; engraving and cutting are left unpolished; base is left rounded; inscribed along calf of one of the figures: (block letters) "N.W.-Rode(illegible) (script) "Only Rock and Roll" David Prytherch 1993).