Fish

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Object Name: 
Panel
Title: 
Fish
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, London
Accession Number: 
92.2.5
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 41.2 cm, W: 91 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1952
Credit Line: 
Gift of Judi Jordan Sowers
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass flashed with cobalt, opaque black enamel, transparent red and amber enamel; cut, acid-etched, stained, painted, plated. Long horizontal panel comprised of four vertical rectangular framed sections of leaded glass pieces; overall design depicting large stylized and abstracted fish with fanned tail, motif is rendered by broad painted stroked of enamel and overlapping patches of color produced by etching through layers of glass.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Sowers, Robert (American, 1923-1990), Former Collection
Sowers, Judi Jordan, Source
1992-06-18
Color: 
Colorless, Cobalt, Opaque Black, Transparent Red, Amber
colorless
cobalt blue
Technique: 
Cut, enameled, and assembled
enameling
cut glass

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 82, #141; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 35 (1993) illustrated, p. 130, #27; BIB# AI32226
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1992 (1993) illustrated, p. 21; BIB# AI96377