Object Details
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- Forest Glass Beakers are inspired by glass from the Middle Ages. The thornlike protrusions, called prunts, are now decorative but derive from their original function of making a vessel stronger and less likely to fall out of the hand. The prunts are applied as blobs of molten glass to the blown vessel and can be shaped in a variety of ways.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Alan Goldfarb, born New York City 1959
- Date
- 1998
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Kenneth R. Trapp in memory of Thomas Hume Slater, Jr.
- Medium
- medieval-style blown glass with applied prunts
- Dimensions
- 7 3/8 x 3 7/8 in. (18.7 x 9.8 cm) diam.
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Glass
- Crafts
