Fenice II

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Fenice II
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
2000.4.8
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 33.3 cm, W: 20.5 cm, D: 8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1998
Credit Line: 
Gift of Royal & SunAlliance and Christina Rifkin
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, cut. Tall, hollow ovoid free form shape with curving upward extensions (like distorted u-shape) one shorter than the other. One face decorated with overlapping cuts so that surface appears ridged. Small oval base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Aldridge, Peter S. (British, b. 1947), Former Collection
Royal & SunAlliance, Source
2000-07-28
Rikfin, Christina, Source
2000-07-28
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Cut
Copyright: 
© Lino Tagliapietra

Exhibitions (1)

Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Glass 2008-02-23 through 2008-08-24

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 221, fig. 56; BIB# AI53002
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2000 (2001) illustrated, pp. 5, 17; BIB# AI98331