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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Untitled
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Kanagawa-ken, Tsukui
Accession Number: 
85.6.16
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.2 cm, W: 37.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Primary Description: 
Black, opal and colorless non-lead glasses; cast, cut and sandblasted cylinders are laminated to blown, iridized center section with applied cane. Cylindrical with bulbous center resting on side; two colorless solid cylinders overlaid with opaque black area cut and sandblasted on one end forming an irregular broken looking matte surface while the other end is cut flat; each section is laminated to opposing necked areas of a blown and fumed opal bulbous central piece which has been intermittently decorated with hot applications of short pieces of twisted black and white cone; sculpture sits on an angle resting on a point of one of the black cylinders and one point of the bulbous center. Signed by edge of black extension "Y Takahashi 84".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Series: 
Pressed Gray
Provenance: 
Takahashi, Yoshihiko (Japanese, b. 1958), Source
1985-04-08
Color: 
Black, opal, colorless
colorless
opal
black
Technique: 
cast, cut, sandblasted cylinders, laminated
molding
casting
cut glass
Inscription: 
Y Takahaski 84
signature
: 
edge of black extension
Copyright: 
© Yoshihiko Takahashi

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Nordend Galerie)
Venue(s)
Nordend Galerie 1984 through 1984

Publications (3)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 176; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 5; BIB# 2318
Zooming (1985) p. 192-193;