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Object Name:

Sculpture

Title:

Solar Gray Compound

Maker(s):

Patti, Tom (American, b. 1943), Maker

Place Made:

United States

Accession Number:

80.4.61

Dimensions:

H: 11 cm, W: 9.7 cm x 8.1 cm

Location:

Not on Display

Date:

1980

Primary Description:

Deep amethyst tinted and colorless glass sheets; laminated, blown, polished. Irregular hexahedron shape distorted by central bubble; form composed of six amethyst and three colorless sheets of flat glass, fused, alternating clear and amethyst; colorless sheets project slightly beyond amethyst tinted sheets forming ribs on three sides of sculpture; bubble located at one end of object, breaking through surface and extending towards center; top rim opening of bubble polished; bubble pushes out and distorts surface of two sides of object; signed on one side near base "Patti 1980"; polished base.