Fire Transformed Old Glass Bottle with Amazing Surface schoolgirl lessons The top of the box

The top of the box is a tapering

in a wide variety of ways

between her fabulous starry dress to his hat and bow tie and what one guesses is a handkerchief in one hand--and her standing on a dip in the ground so as not to be taller than him

Needlepoint itself is 6 3/8” x 3 1/8”

edited by Ron Padgett

Fire Transformed Old Glass Bottle with Amazing Surface schoolgirl lessons The top of the boxI love all sorts of objects transformed by fire and other forces, but have not seen another melted glass bottle with a surface quite like this one, which at first I took for stone. The glass is a very dark green, which appears gray black until held to light, and I guess it a product of the thickness of the glass that it is more the surface than the form that was transfigured though the form was too, giving it a different profile from every angle, and