Cane Slice

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Object Name: 
Cane Slice
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
95.4.282
Dimensions: 
D: 0.6 cm, Th: 0.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1990-1994
Credit Line: 
Gift of Brian Kervliet
Primary Description: 
Colorless and translucent polychrome non-lead glass; flame-worked, tooled, manipulated, fused, encased, pulled, cut. Circular cane section with a flower, consisting of a core of minute concentric circle surrounded by five white petals with red interior lines and blue outlines, followed by a circle of five smaller petals; the whole is encased in colorless glass; unsigned.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Kerkvliet, Brian, Source
Color: 
Colorless, transl. polychrome
colorless
Technique: 
flame-worked, tooled, manipulated, fused, encased
tooling