Vase
Artist: Frances Stewart Higgins (American, 1912-2004)
Date: about 1958-1959
Dimensions:
H: 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.); Diam. (rim): 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Medium: Colorless crushed glass, sheet glass, fused, enamel
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1991.88
Label Text:The husband-and-wife team of Michael (1908–1999) and Frances Higgins were known for their glass enamel tableware in which they welcomed “controlled accidents” during the forming of the object. During the later 1950s, Frances produced sensitive and innovative vessels like this one with granules of fused colorless glass that mimicked fractured ice. By leaving the top edge of this simple, tapered vessel irregular and the upper half of the vase intermittently punctured, she heightened the visual effect of granulated ice in the process of melting.
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