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Into Africa – The Grand Fallacy
Deep bowl, rose-tinted over-cased glass, near-vertical sides; wheel engraved with a scene resembling the Garden of Eden, with a man holding a small rhinoceros and being reprimanded by an ‘Eve’-like figure.
Ronald Pennell is one of Britain's foremost glass artists, internationally renowned for his wheel-engraved narrative scenes. The world he conjures up mixes an irreverent sense of humour with sometimes disconcerting messages. In this work, a man holds a small rhinoceros while thinking about its aphrodisiac horn and is reprimanded by a modern ‘Eve’ for what he has done to the Garden of Eden.This comment on human depradation of the natural world has become only more relevant with the passage of time.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 51797
Creation/Production
Ronald, Pennell
Date: 1996
Acquisition
Gift, 13/2/2020
Measurements
Height
(cm): 16.4
diam
(cm): 19
Techniques
blown
forming
Applied Art
cased
decoration
Applied Art
wheel-engraved
engraved
decoration
Applied Art
Material
glass
Location
In store
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