U.C.L.A. Spring Cone Series

Title: 
U.C.L.A. Spring Cone Series

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Object Name: 
2 Bedspring Cone Cups
Title: 
U.C.L.A. Spring Cone Series
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, WA, Seattle
Accession Number: 
86.4.21
Dimensions: 
(A) Cup H: 15.1 cm, Base Diam: 10.2 cm; (B) Cup H: 16 cm, Base Diam: 10.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1983
Primary Description: 
Colorless (aqua cast) non-lead glass; hot-worked glass; chromed bedspring. Cup section cast in a thick, threaded conical shape with solid base tip, rim is pulled upward on one side to form an asymmetrical opening; heavy steel wire wraps twice around threading then loosely spirals outward forming stem, finally turns in a complete circle closing itself by 1-1/2 wraps and forming a foot; unsigned.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Frantz, Susanne K., Source
1986-04-30
Color: 
colorless
aqua
gray
silver
Technique: 
lampworking
Material: 
glass
steel
Copyright: 
© Lewis C. "Buster" Simpson

Publications (3)

Curiously Interesting: The Corning Museum of Glass Presents All things Odd and Glass (2007-06) illustrated, p. 2, 18; BIB# AI72435
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 205; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861

Objects in Set (2)

U.C.L.A. Spring Cone Series
Artist:Statom, Therman
Date:1983
Accession Number:86.4.21 A
U.C.L.A. Spring Cone Series
Artist:Simpson, Lewis C. "Buster"
Date:1983
Accession Number:86.4.21 B