Winged Head I
Sculpture
1962 (designed and made)
1962 (designed and made)
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Sculpture, red glass and metal (iron); horizontal rectangular with upright support, roughly sculptured surface, metal stand. H 33cm, W 49cm. Mould-melted glass, sheet and wrought metal.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Winged Head I (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Mould-melted red glass and iron stand. |
| Brief description | Sculpture, mould-melted in red glass, in the shape of a ractangular head, Czechoslovakia (Zelezny Brod), Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtová, 1962 |
| Physical description | Sculpture, red glass and metal (iron); horizontal rectangular with upright support, roughly sculptured surface, metal stand. H 33cm, W 49cm. Mould-melted glass, sheet and wrought metal. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague |
| Object history | A (n unspecified) number of Winged Heads were made. The Prague Museum has one in grey-blue glass. At first it was suggested that this had been in the collection of the Ministry of Culture. Sylva Petrová subsequently confirmed that this example was purchased by the Museum later than 1962 from a source in Prague. It is presented to the V&A in exchange for a group of British studio glass to the same value. Winged Head I and II were first shown in the 1964 exhibition "Glass: Czechoslovakia and Italy", at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in New York. |
| Other number | 9719 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.19:1, 2-1996 |
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| Record created | March 16, 1999 |
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