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Title
Bottle of Notes
Date
1993
Medium
steel painted with polyurethane enamel
Measurements
H 910 x W 490 x D 310 cm
Accession number
TS1_HJC_S049
Acquisition method
partly funded by Middlesbrough Borough Council, a Northern Arts grant, and by business sponsorship
Work type
Statue
Owner
Middlesbrough Borough Council
Custodian
Middlesbrough Borough Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
24th September 1993
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
inside bottle: C. O. Cos
Inscription description
outside of bottle, cursive letters in spiral: We had every advantage we could desire in observing the whole passage of the planet Venus over the Sun’s disk; inside of bottle, cursive letters spiral in van Bruggen spiral handwriting: I like to remember seagulls in full flight gliding over the ring of canals.