Seaform Basket

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Title: 
Seaform Basket
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, RI, Providence
Accession Number: 
92.4.128
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.3 cm, D: 28 cm, L: 31.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1981
Credit Line: 
Bequest of David Brokars
Primary Description: 
Bowl, "Seaform Basket". Colorless and opalescent non-lead glass; blown, hot-applied threads. Globular shape, with pushed out vertical lobes all around sides and zipper-like decoration of opalescent glass which is formed of opaque threading which has been marvered-in, opaque white thread around tip rim and radiating from pontil mark on base; signed "Chihuly/1981" on base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Brokars Estate, David, Former Collection
1992
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, opalescent
colorless
Technique: 
blown, tooled
Inscription: 
signed "Chihuly/1981" on base
Signature and date
Copyright: 
© Dale Chihuly