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Pink Bowl

Artist Karla Trinkley (American, born 1956)

Date1990

DimensionsH: 15 7/8 in. (40.4 cm); W: 14 in. (35.6 cm); D: 8 3/4 in. (22.3 cm)

MediumGlass, cast using pâte de verre technique

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1991.5

Not on View

Label TextKarla Trinkley revived an ancient Roman technique, so-called "cage" cups (see Gallery 1). Cage cups were the most exclusive luxury glasses made in the later Roman Empire. These small ancient vessels started out as thick-walled, blown blanks (cooled, unworked glass forms) and the cage emerged by carefully cutting and grinding the exterior in a laborious and risky process. Trinkley achieved her cage construction by casting it from pulverized glass in a plaster mold that was then fired in a furnace over a period of several weeks. Glittering in pale pink and green, the bowl’s delicate surface contradicts its large, off-centered form.Exhibition HistoryChicago, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, International New Forms Exposition, 1990 (no cat.).

Tampa Museum of Art; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and Its Origins, 1999, p. 94, 124, repr. (col.).

Comparative ReferencesSee also Klein, Dan, Glass: a Contemporary Art, New York, 1989, pp. 61-62.