A LEERDAM UNICA GLASS OBJECT, designed by Floris Meydam, cylindrical form, the top pulled to the inside to form a drop-shape pocket, clear glass at the base passing into clear amber at the top, the drop-pocket of opaque orange-red glass, acid-etched Leerdam Unica MAE 180 F Meydam. LL, 1977
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A LEERDAM UNICA GLASS OBJECT, designed by Floris Meydam, cylindrical form, the top pulled to the inside to form a drop-shape pocket, clear glass at the base passing into clear amber at the top, the drop-pocket of opaque orange-red glass, acid-etched Leerdam Unica MAE 180 F Meydam. LL, 1977
31.6cm. high
Provenance
Private Collection Rob van den Doel, 1982
Literature
New Glass - A Worldwide Survey, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p. 154, no. 147, illustrated
A. van der Kley-Blekxtoon & H. Ricke, Floris Meydam Leerdam Glass 1944-1986, 1986, p. 110
Exhibited
New York, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, New Glass - A Worldwide Survey, 1979. This exhibition later travelled to Toledo Ohio, the Toledo Museum of Art, 1979, Washington, the Smithsonian Institution, 1980 and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980-1981
Lot Essay
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