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(What!) Watt's Whatnot

Sculpture
c.1985 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Two part glass and metal sculpture. Two panels comprising several pieces of flat glass of various sizes, joind in parallel with brass "dowels"; overarching free-standing rectilinear length of flat glass with two brass wire "legs" and curcular glass feet, surmounted by an extended wire with glass ball. Greenish glass with circles, spots, stripes and applied glass knobs in red, yellow, blue, green, orange and black printed enamel colours.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Sculpture
  • Sculpture
Title(What!) Watt's Whatnot (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Glass, enamel, metal, printed. Cast flat glass fused and then assembled.
Brief description
Glass and metal sculpture, "(What!) Watt's Whatnot", cast, fused and assembled, by John Smith, Britain, c.1985.
Physical description
Two part glass and metal sculpture. Two panels comprising several pieces of flat glass of various sizes, joind in parallel with brass "dowels"; overarching free-standing rectilinear length of flat glass with two brass wire "legs" and curcular glass feet, surmounted by an extended wire with glass ball. Greenish glass with circles, spots, stripes and applied glass knobs in red, yellow, blue, green, orange and black printed enamel colours.
Dimensions
  • Parallel panels length: 23.2cm
  • Parallel panels height: 20.7cm
  • Arch height: 22.7cm
  • Arch length: 59cm
Style
Collection
Accession number
C.80:1, 2-1995

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Record createdJune 18, 2009
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