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Object Name: 
Vase
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Maker(s)
Littleton, Harvey K. ((American, b. 1922)), Designer
Place Made: 
United States, Madison, WI
Date: 
1965
Color
Fiberglass marbles
Technique
blown, silver oxide decoration
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.4 cm, L: 16.6 cm, Rim W: 10.45 cm
Accession Number: 
66.4.47
Location: 
Not on Display
Copyright: 
© Harvey K. Littleton
© Harvey K. Littleton
Description
Fiberglas marbles, #475; blown, silver oxide decoration.
Label Text
The Johns-Manville #475 marbles are a low-melting-point glass material that was supplied by Dominick Labino to the 1962 Toledo Workshop participants. They were widely used during the early years of American studio glass.
Provenance
Littleton, Harvey K. ((American, b. 1922)), Source to 1966

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Exhibitions

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
Publications
1
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
 
Founders of American Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-11-17 through 2013-01-06
West Bridge show at CMoG

Publications

Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012 (2012) illustrated, p. 95, plate 50, p. 189; BIB# 130144
Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass 2012 (2011-12) illustrated, p. 4;
Curator's Eye (2011-09) illustrated, p. 98;
Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass (2011) illustrated, p. 69; BIB# 127267
Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, pp. 8-9; BIB# 109342
Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 26; BIB# 130418
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 82; BIB# 96551
The encyclopedia of modern marbles, spheres & orbs (2005) illustrated, p. 25 fig. 21; BIB# 88983
Plastik sanatlarda cam malzemenin uygulanisi (2003) illustrated, p. 67, fig. 3.26; BIB# 120381
The Sixties: decade of design revolution (1998) p. 218, illus.; BIB# 60887
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 128, #127; BIB# 35679
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 64, 95, pl. 98; BIB# 33046
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 51; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 4; BIB# 2318

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