Sick as a Dog
Artist: Daniel Owen Dailey (American, born 1947)
Date: 1984
Dimensions:
H: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm); W: 18 in. (45.7 cm); Depth: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)
Medium: Vitrolite glass, aluminum, and nickel-plated brass
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy and George Saxe
Object number: 1991.92
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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