Cane Slice

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Object Name: 
Cane Slice
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
95.4.314
Dimensions: 
H: 0.8 cm, L: 0.9 cm, Th: 0.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1990-1994
Credit Line: 
Gift of Brian Kervliet
Primary Description: 
Colorless and opaque white, red, blue, yellow, orange, green, and black non-lead glasses; flame-worked, tooled, manipulated, fused, encased, pulled, cut. Cane slice of a date cane commemorating the 1990 Bead Conference, stylized eye bead outlined in black above the date 1990, encased in white, the whole surrounded by a repetitive circle of primary colors framed in black, the whole encased in colorless glass; unsigned.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Kerkvliet, Brian, Source
Color: 
Colorless, opaque white, red
colorless
Technique: 
flame-worked, tooled, manipulated, fused, encased
tooling