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Mae West Cup with Cover

Mae West Cup with Cover

 
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Object Name: 
Cup and Cozy
Title: 
Mae West Cup with Cover
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Maker(s)
Marquis, Richard ((American, b. 1945)), Artist
Venini Glassworks, Studio
Place Made: 
Italy, Murano
Date: 
1969-1970
Color
Opaque White, Transparent Light Red
Technique
Fused and blown
Dimensions: 
a) Cup H: 8.1 cm, Rim Diam (max): 4.5 cm, Base Diam (max): 11.25 cm; b) Cozy H: 14.5 cm, W: 16.5 cm, L (max): ~20 cm
Accession Number: 
2001.3.52
Location: 
On Display
Copyright: 
© Richard Marquis
Description
a) Cup. Colorless, opaque white, pink glass; fused, blown, and cased with applied handle. b) Cozy; pink, cream, and gray velour, embroidery floss, zipper, stuffing. Cup has cylindrical neck that flares out to conical shaped oval base, applied white band at rim, applied white handle. Pink and white fused vertical canes (a canne) cased over opaque white. b) Cozy echoes shape of cup in shape and color. Zipper runs from top of handle over neck and down to base in other side.
Label Text
Marquis was one of the first American studio glass artists to visit Venini and to work with the factory’s glassblowers. Marquis, who studied historical glass, liked the fact that very old glasses sometimes had their own traveling cases. When he returned to California, he asked a friend, Nirmal Kaur (Barbara Brittell), to sew one for this cup.
Inscription
77.50b
77.50a
Provenance
Museum of Contemporary Art, Former Collection to
Habatat Galleries Inc., Source to 2001-10-23

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Exhibitions

Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America
Venue(s)
Carnegie Museum of Art 2007-05-12 through 2007-09-16
Decades in Glass: The 60's
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-11-17 through 2006-04-02
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2006-07-12 through 2007-01-06
 
The Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-03-08 through 2004-10-31
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2005-02-11 through 2005-07-30

Publications

Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America (2007) illustrated, p. 104, Plate 51; BIB# 101488
Recent Important Acquisitions, 44 (2002) illustrated, p. 236, fig. 45;
Richard Marquis: Objects (1997) p. 47, #12; BIB# 59475

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