Verti Fan #31

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Verti Fan #31
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
91.4.53
Dimensions: 
H: 36.5 cm, L: 49.9 cm, W: 13 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Meltzer
Primary Description: 
Colorless and transparent gray non-lead glasses, colored Vitrolite; 1/4" plate glass cut, ground and polished; 1/2" spacers laminated to plate glass, ground, polished; all parts are then laminated together with Loctite 363. Fan-shape sculpture formed of six stylized vase shapes cut from flat glass (alternating smoked and plate) and overlapping at cut angled bases; vases attached and separated by vertical spacers of colorless laminated to cobalt; all edges ground and polished; inscribed on front base edge: "VERTI FAN #31, Sidney R. Hutter 1984".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Meltzer, Peter, Source
1991-09-05
Meltzer, Mrs. Peter, Source
1991-09-05
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, transparent gray
colorless
Technique: 
cut, ground, polished, laminated
polishing
cut glass
ground glass
Copyright: 
© Sidney R. Hutter

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Heller Gallery)
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery

Publications (1)

Contemporary Glass and Ceramics, Art Noveau & Art Deco, including Erte (1991-03-18) lot 25; BIB# 12183