Cloistered Cube Botanical
Artist: Paul Joseph Stankard (American, born 1943)
Date: 1989
Dimensions:
5 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (13.3 × 7.9 × 7.9 cm)
Medium: Colorless Schott PS 5 soda-lime glass, polychrome opaque and translucent soda-lime glasses (Kugler and Italian color rods), transparent dark green Schott optical filter (welding) glass no. 1, Hextol adhesive; flame-worked, encased, ground, polished, laminated.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the gift of Jefferson D. Robinson in memory of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Robinson, by exchange
Object number: 2008.157
DescriptionShort truncated obelisk with slightly curved top and sides of solid colorless glass, encasing a suspended earth clump botanical with blue gentians above and flowering spring beauties below. Three vertical sides of the obelisk are laminated with a layer of transparent green optical filter glass, front side and top are not faced; square base tapers and formed of two layers of green glass sandwiching a layer of colorless glass; base ground and polished flat with wide circular ground and polished pontil; four small rubber feet at corners.
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