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Sculpture

1991 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cast glass form of semi-opaque blue and white glass with basalt rock inserts. Ring-shaped sculpture cast from an original cast in beach sand.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Sand-cast glass, with basalt inserts
Brief description
Sculpture of cast glass, Colin Reid, Britain, 1991
Physical description
Cast glass form of semi-opaque blue and white glass with basalt rock inserts. Ring-shaped sculpture cast from an original cast in beach sand.
Dimensions
  • Height: 52.0cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Colin Reid 1991' and 'R440', incised (Scratched finely on one of the two basalt inserts. The number is immediately below the date.)
  • Transliteration
Object history
Shown at the Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London, in December 1991.
Bibliographic reference
See C. Reid subject file in the Ceramics and Glass Department
Other number
7584 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.34-1992

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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