Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature northern california this is unsigned and I

this is unsigned and I don’t know who painted it

The Grace Borgenicht Gallery opened on 57th Street in May 1951

For those of you who carefully choose jewelry daily to complement your attire (I admire you

it reveals itself slowly

With chalk drawings of a ship and a train at either side of that board

Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature northern california this is unsigned and II know this is an old one, as I found it along with remnants of an antique hand cut tin lattice sleeve, which would have held it to make it usable (no longer the case.) Which made me realize how lovely an object a liberated (and thwarted) hourglass is when set on its side formally and metaphorically resonant in all sorts of ways! 2 1 2" long. Hand blown, with pontils at either end, and satisfying pinkish brown sand. Nice patina to the surface of the