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A 4 digit house number, glass, gold smalti, on slate, 12x8"

A 4 digit house number, glass, gold smalti, on slate, 12x8"

One of the ornate drawer pulls in our built-in kitchen cupboard, in our 1900 rowhouse in Lansdale, PA

By Vera Liskova (1924 - 1985)
Czechoslovakia, Prague
1977
Item number: 79.3.14
Flameworked borosilicate glass
Photo by Wayne Stratz

In Czechoslovakia one remarkable woman, Vera Liskova, elevated borosilicate lampworking into a fine art. Her large, striking, abstract sculptures captured the imagination of art critics and collectors during the 1970's until her untimely death in 1979. Liskova's influence can be seen today in the work of several prominent East European lampworkers including the Poles Paulina Komorovska and Anna Skibska who make large, fragile, austere sculpture composed of impossibly thin pieces of glass assembled into a greater whole.

www.artofvenice.com/art/Lampwork1.htm

A client asked Wayne to interpret a photo meaningful to her husband, in stained glass.