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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
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.
