Untitled #2

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Untitled #2
Accession Number: 
85.4.26
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.6 cm, L: 27.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Primary Description: 
Deep blue-green transparent non-lead glass; cast, cut and polished. Cone shaped with point; semi-hollow cast cone of deep blue-green which tapers sharply to a solid point; first third of cone nearest the point is slightly stepped out and polished smoothly while the remaining flared area retains mold marks creating a semi-opaque textured surface, rim is ground flat and polished; interior of hollow area is centrally pierced by a sharply pointed narrow cone whose pointed end extends out past the open rim of the larger cone, pointed half consists of a polished section of colorless laminated to its lower half which is cast as part of the large cone, cast lower half of small cone has four equally spaced thin triangular phalanges that extend perpendicularly, meeting the walls of the large cone; surface bears intermittent large bubbles and casting irregularities. Signed "Klumper 1984".
Provenance: 
Klumpar, Vladimira (b. 1954), Source
1985-04-08
Category: 
Inscription: 
Klumpar 1984
signature
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
Vladena Klumparova New Glass Sculpture from Czechoslovakia
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery 1984-05-05 through 1984-06-02
 
New Glass Review, 6 (1985) illustrated, p. 18, #43;
Untitled (1984) illustrated BIB# 102035