A PAUL STANKARD BOTANICAL GLASS SCULPTURE

INSCRIBED AND DATED PAUL STANKARD #76 1984

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A PAUL STANKARD BOTANICAL GLASS SCULPTURE
INSCRIBED AND DATED PAUL STANKARD #76 1984
Of tapering rectangular form on a stepped foot, the clear glass set with four naturalistically shaded pink lady's slipper blossoms and one bud, with variant variegated sepals, growing from conjoined stems, issuing numerous striated slender leaves, resting above a sandy terrain and suspending a complex root system, concave base
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) diameter; 4 in. (10.3 cm.) high

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For a similar example see The Museum of Art and Design Exhibition Catalogue, 'Paul Stankard: A Floating World Forty Years of an American Master in Glass, May 28 - August 29, 2004', New York, p. 35; also compare Ulysses Grant Diez, Paul Stankard, Homage to Nature, New York, 1996, p. 103 for an example with bulbous form entwined roots, from the Belkin Collection.

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