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Carl Erickson ?Controlled Bubble? Fan Vase #1795320

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Carl Erickson ?Controlled Bubble? Fan Vase #1795320
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This 1940s-1950s fan vase is quintessential Erickson! Here Erickson takes the fan vase and transforms it through design, color, and execution.</em></td>
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This fan vase is quintessential Erickson! Here Erickson takes a familiar shape?here, the fan vase?and transforms it through design, color, and execution. It is circa 1940s-1950s.<p>

First, the fan vase design is separated into two main sections?the fan part of the vase, and the base. Rather than being integral within the same design, they are made of two pieces?in two different colors?and connected as the base is applied. The base becomes the Erickson bubble.
And then third, the internal textures of the glass are different. The fan is a smooth, stunning emerald green?and the base is given the signature Erickson controlled bubbles?here, very small and very symmetrical. They are laid out within a grid and appear to be a net of bubbles suspended within the larger bubble of the base. The crystal glass of the base shines and shimmers with its bubbles within the bubble form.<p>

In addition, the fan itself is reinterpreted by Erickson giving it flared sides and ends. The fan shape rises and falls in an indulation or wave. The top of the fan turns out to allow the viewer seeing the front of the vase to see also within it. The outside deep emerald color becomes lighter within the vase and deeper again on the other side. The overall concept of the fan vase is then again changed with the relative size of the base bubble to that of the fan. Rather than the fan shape dominating the view of the vase, the disproportionately large bubble base?especially with the sparkling controlled ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1940s-1950s</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Carl Erickson ?Controlled Bubble? Fan Vase</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Hillsboro, Ohio USA</td></tr>
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