Unbearable Lightness
Form
1994 (designed (process)), ca. 1994 (made)
1994 (designed (process)), ca. 1994 (made)
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Glass bag-like form with iregular flat lid, still mould-blown bag, colourless with a textured surface. The lid is irregular flat shape, it has filigree in orange, green, blue, mauve and white in a spiral pattern from the central knob fixture which is orange glass with a metal fixture.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Unbearable Lightness (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Glass, metal, filigree, still mould-blown. |
| Brief description | 'Unbearable Lightness', large container, colourless, mould-blown glass, with colourful cover, designed by Markku Salo for Nuutajärvi glassworks, Finland, 1984 |
| Physical description | Glass bag-like form with iregular flat lid, still mould-blown bag, colourless with a textured surface. The lid is irregular flat shape, it has filigree in orange, green, blue, mauve and white in a spiral pattern from the central knob fixture which is orange glass with a metal fixture. |
| Gallery label | Unbearable Lightness
Metal mesh mould-blown glass; filigree ‘lid'.
Designed by Markku Salo, 1994; made by the Nuutajärvi glass team.
Gift of Markku Salo(11/1997) |
| Credit line | Gift of Markku Salo |
| Object history | Object is one of a series of unique but similar forms. |
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| Other number | 9838 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.194:1, 2-1997 |
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| Record created | December 23, 1997 |
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