Passage: Nocturnal Interval

Title: 
Passage: Nocturnal Interval

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Passage: Nocturnal Interval
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
81.4.169
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.3 cm, W: 37.7 cm, L: 81.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1981
Credit Line: 
Anonymous Gift
Primary Description: 
"Passage: Nocturnal Interval", Sculpture. Steuben crystal with aluminum alloy base and fittings; cast, ground, sandblasted, polished. A hydrogen reduction process blackens the normally colorless Steuben crystal base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Anonymous Source
Color: 
Colorless, black
colorless
Technique: 
Ground, Cut, Sandblasted
ground glass
cut glass
Inscription: 
Steuben Peter Aldridge 80-81
signature

Exhibitions (1)

The Cutting Edge: 200 Years of the Crystal Object
Venue(s)
M. H. De Young Memorial Museum 1992-02-22 through 1992-05-17
Toledo Museum of Art 1992-06-30 through 1992-08-22
National Museum of American History 1992-10-03 through 1993-01-24
Denver Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Publications (6)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 92; BIB# 130418
The Cutting Edge: 200 Years of Crystal (1992) fig. 45; BIB# 35042
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, pp. 154-155; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 3; BIB# 2318
Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 113, #76; BIB# AI9252
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1981 (1982) illustrated, pp. 4, 13; BIB# AI97141