Pious Helena
(Fromme Helena)
1967
Medium
glass, silver
Measurements
29.4 × 12.2 × 12.7 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Klaus Moje, Fellow, 1996
© the artist
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Frauenau, Bavaria, Germany
Inscription
incised in stem l.c.: E EISCH / 1967
Accession Number
1996.551
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
In opaque black glass, the 'hot-worked' sculptural object in the form of a deformed goblet set on a stem of multiple bobbins above a flat foot, the bowl surmounted by the torso of a stylised figure with averted head and upraised arms. Details are outlined in silver lustre, bands of lustre also around stem.