Ukhambas (spring)
Artist
Corey Pemberton
(American, born 1990)
Date2021
MediumBlown and wheel-carved glass with brass lid
Dimensions15 × 6 1/2 in. (38.1 × 16.5 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Arthur and Renée Diamonstein Memorial Fund
Object number2022.33.1
DescriptionThis is one of three separate vessels that are meant to be shown together as a triptych. This vessel is the taller green vessel with gold colored lid. Each vessel is made with murrini, i.e. patterned glass slices that were cut from a complex glass cane. These have been fused together and picked up onto a blow pipe, then shaped and inflated into a hollow glass vessel. After annealing, the vessel was cold-worked with long and shallow facet cuts using a wheel and fitted with a simple, shallow brass lid with a finial. The patterning of the murrini is essentially geometric in a palette of opaque pale mint-green, white, and yellow glass with some translucent colorless glass on one vessel as well. All three vessels have an organic, gourd-like shape. The tallest vessel is narrowest at its rim, widening gradually towards a rounded base; its patterning is a mix of stripes and checked mint-green and white glass. The shortest vessel has a similar color palette and patterning; a squat vessel, it is narrowest near the rim and expands to a fat body with a rounded base. The shape and size of the medium vessel lies somewhere between these two; its color palette includes opaque white, yellow-orange, and red, with some lenses of translucent colorless glass that form a loose checkerboard pattern.
