Twirling Vapors Vase, Small

A work of arrested movement, the Twirling Vapors Vase captures the ephemeral quality of smoke suspended in glass — form and light conspiring to suggest something both weightless and eternal. At seven inches tall and spanning nearly fifteen inches across, its low, expansive silhouette commands a surface with quiet authority, the art glass medium lending an inner luminosity that shifts with the ambient light of a room. From John Richard, this is a piece that rewards a considered placement: a console, a library shelf, the center of a composed vignette where its sculptural breadth can be fully appreciated.