Evening Gown

Sophia Gimbel

About 1975

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One-half-gallon jar with no handles, brown glaze
Large, semi-square block of clear polished glass with rectangular sections of blue and red glass along two edges opposite a jagged corner, which serves as the base of the piece.
Tall wine goblet with a burgundy bowl, the exterior partially covered with a textured white glass, the lip with two intentional chips from which burgundy-colored glass drips emerge and run down the bowl, the long stem descends into an open burgundy and white flower-like form with similar glass drips and linear threads that spiral to the foot, which is round and of clear glass.
Statuette of a robed, bearded man, monkish in appearance, holding a glass mercury thermometer [missing] as walking stick in right hand.