Platter
Artist: Glen Lukens (American, 1887-1967)
Date: about 1955
Dimensions:
H: 4 in. (10.1 cm);
Diam.: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
Medium: Glass; slumped
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1992.45
Label Text:Glen Lukens is best known for his ceramics, and he applied that expertise to forming warm glass. In the 1940s Lukens discovered that he could slump glass windowpanes using the same molds he employed for shaping his ceramic vessels. As with his clay, Lukens strove to create glass forms with a rough texture and tactile nuance not seen until the revived interest in pâte-de-verre (fused glass “paste”) and cast glass later in the 20th century.
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