Plate Glass Vase #85156

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Plate Glass Vase #85156
Maker(s): 
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".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Series: 
Plate Glass Vase
Provenance: 
Borowsky, Laurie, Source
Borowsky, Irvin J., Source
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, transp. smokey gray
colorless
Technique: 
cut, laminated
cut glass
Copyright: 
© Sidney R. Hutter