Rondelantern

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Object Name: 
Hanging Lantern
Title: 
Rondelantern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, IL, Bedford Park
Accession Number: 
2006.4.242
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 104.5 cm, W: 31 cm, D: 30.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1957-1964
Primary Description: 
Pale orange, yellow and greenish glass; fused in a kiln; chrome-plated steel, electrical wiring. Twelve square, bulls-eye "roundelays" outfitted with copper ring fittings and hung on a lighting fixture made of chrome-plated steel.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Wright Auctions, Source
2006-10-11
Category: 
Contemporary
Color: 
Pale orange, yellow, greenish
yellow
Technique: 
Fused in a kiln
Material: 
glass
steel
copper
chromium
electric wiring
Copyright: 
© Frances Stewart Higgins
© Michael Higgins

Publications (6)

Seeing Through Modernism (2009-01) illustrated, p. 135; BIB# AI77119
Contemporary Kiln-formed Glass (2009) illustrated, p. 70; BIB# 112683
Recent Important Acquisitions (2007) illustrated, p. 114; BIB# AI75166
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2006 (2007) illustrated, p. 20; BIB# AI92696
The Gather (2007) illustrated, p. 12; BIB# AI75852
Modern + contemporary design (2006) lot 322; BIB# 94969