Sculpture Part

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Object Name: 
Sculpture Part
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia
Accession Number: 
86.3.58 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 34.2 cm; Base Diam: 16.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1982
Primary Description: 
Transparent bluish-purple non-lead glass; blown, cut. Hollow, globular bowl, on top of a spreading, solid stem and foot; opening at the top of the bowl, cut angular vertical grooves in the thick sides; solid, large stem and foot, spreading gently from top to bottom, with sharp rim; polished, flat base; diamond point script inscription on the bottom, "L. Smrckova"; paper label inscribed in black ballpoint ink "116596" (now in object folder).

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Smrckova, Ludvika (Czech, 1903-1991), Former Collection
Art Centrum, Former Collection
1986
Color: 
Transparent bluish-purple
Technique: 
Blown, Cut

Exhibitions (2)

Ludvika Smrckova, Kunstlerisches Glas
Sparkasse der Stadt Berlin West
Ludvika Smrckova, sklarske dilo 1923-1983
Venue(s)
Belvedere, Prague 1983 through 1983
 

Publications (3)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 126; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861
Ludvika Smrckova, Sklarske Dilo 1923-1983 (1983) p. 30, #349; BIB# 31163

Objects in Set (3)

Sculpture
Date:1982
Accession Number:86.3.58
Sculpture Part
Artist:Smrckova, Ludvika
Date:1982
Accession Number:86.3.58 B
 
Sculpture Part
Artist:Smrckova, Ludvika
Date:1982
Accession Number:86.3.58 C