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Pyramid

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Pyramid
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Italy, Murano
Date: 
1991
Color
AAT
colorless
AAT
blue
AAT
black
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 66 cm, W: 30.5 cm, D: 15.2 cm
Accession Number: 
2001.3.27
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Bubbly colorless; translucent red, blue and black glass; gold foil inclusions; hot-worked, applied. Tall sculpture consisting of 5 blocks of glass stacked atop each other with a rounded cylindrical shape on top. Lowest block has blue background with red ring encircling gold foil and a smaller black ring just inside the red. The other 4 blocks have blue rectangles in the center. The rounded cylinder at the top has gold foil circled by blue and a red swirl through the center. Along the right side of the sculpture is an applied red stripe.
Inscription
E???? Raffaelli Engraved Next to Willson signature on short side. in script
Robert Willson Engraved
Provenance
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source to 2001
Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America
Venue(s)
Carnegie Museum of Art 2007-05-12 through 2007-09-16
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-05-15 through 2003-11-09
 
Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America (2007) illustrated, p. 82, Plate 34; BIB# 101488
2300 Degrees salutes a Texan (2003-05-15) illustrated, p. 3D;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2001 (2002) illustrated, p. 16;
Robert Willson: Image-Maker (2001) p. 138, top; BIB# 71997

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