Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature northern california The Grace Borgenicht Gallery opened

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

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

or scrabble player in one's life

which I purchased from a wonderful paper dealer from upstate New York at the Papertown show in Boxborough

it reveals itself slowly

Time Stopped: Antique Handblown Glass Hourglass with No Armature northern california The Grace Borgenicht Gallery openedI 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