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Free Glass

Sculpture
1981 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Blown glass sculpture of clear, white, blue and green glass. Light bulb-shaped body with a disc of glass attached just below the top of the sculpture. Designed with a circle of cased glass containing blue green and white glass that has been trailed and combed and attached to the body giving it a cycloptic appearance. The upper third of the body is white glass.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFree Glass (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Glass, blown, trailed, combed
Brief description
Sculpture, glass, Sybren Valkema, Netherlands, 1981.
Physical description
Blown glass sculpture of clear, white, blue and green glass. Light bulb-shaped body with a disc of glass attached just below the top of the sculpture. Designed with a circle of cased glass containing blue green and white glass that has been trailed and combed and attached to the body giving it a cycloptic appearance. The upper third of the body is white glass.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26.0cm
  • Maximum width: 19.0cm
Style
Gallery label
The Dutch artist Sybren Valkema worked in the workshop of Ann Wärff, Transö, Sweden with the glassblower Wilke A. Adolfsson to produce this piece.
Bibliographic reference
See subject information file for details of blowing process and photographs of the artist
Other number
9778 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.99-1982

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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