A Cup with Appeal, #2

Object Name:

Sculptural Vessel

Title:

A Cup with Appeal, #2

Department

Modern

Category

Contemporary

Maker(s)

Levin, Robert ((American, b. 1948)), Maker

Place Made:

United States, NC, Penland

Date:

1977

Color

Yellow, black, green, white

AAT

yellow

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      - yellow (ref)

AAT

black

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      - black (ref)

AAT

green

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      - green (ref)

Technique

blown, applied decoration, hot-worked

AAT

applied decoration

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  - applied decoration (ref)

Dimensions:

Overall H: 21.7 cm, W (max): 13.4 cm

Accession Number:

79.4.131

Credit Line:

Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts

Location:

On Display

Description

Yellow, black, green, white lead glass; blown, applied decoration, hot-worked. Ovoid cup of yellow glass with white overlay, green applied circles on sides, applied to a yellow banana with black stripes which forms a stem, applied handle of a green leaf and colorless cased over green glass with black stripes, all applied to an oval flat foot of colorless glass with a sandblasted surface. Engraved signature on one black stripe of banana "Robt Levin 1977".

Provenance

Levin, Robert ((American, b. 1948)), Source

1979-09-21

Exhibitions (2)
Publications (4)

Exhibitions

Masterpieces of American Glass

Venue(s)

Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02

Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979

Toledo Museum of Art

Publications

Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 171, #286; BIB# 58995

Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 69, 96, pl. 110; BIB# 33046

Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 96-97, #102; BIB# 34475

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 131, #120; BIB# 20603

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