Bag Explosion

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Object Name: 
Sculptural Vessel
Title: 
Bag Explosion
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NC, Bakersville
Accession Number: 
2007.4.170
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.3 cm, W: 18.4 cm, D: 12.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1988
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family
Primary Description: 
Blown and hot-worked glass, cut, hot-assembled, acid-etched.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Habatat Galleries Inc., Former Collection
1989
Heineman, Ben W. Sr. Family, Source
Category: 
Studio Glass
Technique: 
blown, hot-worked, acid-etched, hot-assembled
acid-etching
Inscription: 
John Littleton Kate Vogel 1988
signature
: 
along bottom edge
Copyright: 
© John Littleton

Exhibitions (1)

Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Contemporary Glass Gallery and Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (1)

Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection (2009) illustrated, pp. 202-203, pl. 108; BIB# 109983