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Object Name:

Sculpture

Title:

Plate Glass Vase #85156

Maker(s):

Hutter, Sidney R. (b. 1954), Maker

Place Made:

United States, MA, Cambridge

Accession Number:

92.4.115

Dimensions:

H: 47 cm, D(max): 14 cm

Location:

Not on Display

Date:

1983

Credit Line:

Gift of Laurie and Irvin J. Borowsky

Primary Description:

1/4" colorless plate glass (natural green tint), 1/2" transparent smokey gray non-lead glass; plate glass and 1/2" gray spacers, cut, ground, polished, laminated with Loctite UV 363. Tall vase-shape sculpture comprised of plate glass discs in varying diameters separated by spiraling rectangular smokey-gray glass spacers (some with beveled ends); flared "opening" solid disc with beveled edge, long narrow neck widening to sloped shoulder, narrow columnar body tapering in towards wide disc base; inscribed on base: "(block letters) Handmade/Vase 85/56(script) Sidney R. Hutter/ Oct. 1983".