Rearing Glass Horse Sculpture

A rearing horse captured in hand-blown art glass, this John Richard sculpture transforms raw material into arrested motion — the arched neck, lifted forelegs, and taut silhouette rendered with a glassblower's singular command of light and form. At eighteen and a half inches tall, it commands a console or library shelf with the authority of a much larger work, its transparency allowing it to inhabit space rather than merely occupy it. This is the kind of object that rewards a second look and a third, its interior luminosity shifting with the hour and the room.