Persimmon

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Persimmon
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, WA, Seattle
Accession Number: 
2008.4.46
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 52.1 cm, W: 22.3 cm, D: 22.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
2006
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Persimmon". Colorless, opaque white, brown and orange glass; fused, blown, murrine and filigrana. Roughly rectanular shaped sculpture with orange and white murrine with undulating strips of brown and white glass between them.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Chappell Gallery, Source
Color: 
colorless
opaque white glass
brown
orange
Technique: 
glassblowing
Murrine
watermarks
fusing
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Kait Rhoads

Exhibitions (1)

Favorites From the Contemporary Glass Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (5)

2015 Calendar Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, title leaf, December; BIB# 142518
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (2014-12) illustrated, December;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2008 (2009) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# AI94759
Artists and Objects (New Glass Review 28) (2007) illustrated, p. 39, #63; BIB# AI75159
Persimmon (2006) illustrated BIB# 121085