Glazed porcelain sculpture in the form of an open-faced sandwich, mounted on a square wood board, comprised of a piece of white porcelain bread with glazed brown "crust" topped with a piece of yellow cheese and green lettuce with yellow highlights and an open mouth with red lips and a set of four square, white teeth, from the upper lip protrude red spiky elements and below the mouth an additional row of eight teeth, one with a gold filling.

Lip Sandwich

Frank Fleming

1972

Titles Lip Sandwich (Proper)
Artist Frank Fleming, American, 1940 - 2018
Medium glazed porcelain and wood
Dimensions 4 1/2 × 5 5/8 × 5 5/8 in. (11.4 × 14.3 × 14.3 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Ned and Robin Selfe, AFI.175.2015
Work Type sculpture
Classification Sculpture