Cicada Pendant

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Object Name: 
Pendant
Title: 
Cicada Pendant
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
83.4.3
Dimensions: 
OL: 21.8 cm, L: 7 cm, W: 3.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978-1982
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; pressed and polished. Cicada pendant with frosted portions of wings; attached to gold necklace with ball and hook clasp; in fitted leather box. Signed on lower edge: "Steuben".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1983-01-14
Category: 
Jewelry
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressed, polished
pressing

Exhibitions (1)

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 (3)

Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 67, 95, pl. 105; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 98, #105; BIB# 34475
Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (1982 edition) (1982) p. 254; BIB# 21935