Torso

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Torso
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France
Accession Number: 
86.3.13
Dimensions: 
H: 22.8 cm, W: 9.2 cm, L: 8.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1985
Primary Description: 
Colorless with transparent amber and translucent opal non-lead glass; iridized; flame-worked and tooled. Hollow male torso; stylized nude male torso in contraposto position; neck and lower jaw form narrow top opening, trunk is armless, legs terminate above the knee, one leg strides forward; colorless glass has been overlaid with coloring oxides creating an overall iridized amber appearance with opalescent striations; object rests on closed flattened bases of legs.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Buechner, Thomas S. (American, 1926-2010), Source
1986-04-21
Color: 
Colorless, amber, opal
colorless
amber
Technique: 
flameworked, tooled
Inscription: 
Merloz/85
signature

Publications (2)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 209; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861