Cloistered Cube Botanical

Artist Paul Joseph Stankard (American, born 1943)

Date1989

Dimensions5 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (13.3 × 7.9 × 7.9 cm)

MediumColorless 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.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the gift of Jefferson D. Robinson in memory of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Robinson, by exchange

Object number

2008.157

Not on View

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.