Tanagra-Style Standing Draped Female Figure Leaning on a Pillar

Title: 
Tanagra-Style Standing Draped Female Figure Leaning on a Pillar

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Tanagra-Style Standing Draped Female Figure Leaning on a Pillar
Maker(s): 
Despret, Georges (French, b. Belgium, 1862-1952), Designer
Place Made: 
France, Jeumont
Accession Number: 
2008.3.49
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.1 cm, W: 8.5 cm, D: 7.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1900-1910
Web Description: 
Despret was an engineer and an expert in industrial glassmaking. Inside his factory, he kept a studio where he made artistic objects in pâte de verre. Despret was inspired by the discovery, in the 1870s, of hundreds of Hellenistic Greek terracotta figures at the ancient site of Tanagra, in Boeotia, and he made a series of them in glass.

More Info

Department: 
Modern and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Zietz, Rainer, Source
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
green
purple
white
Technique: 
pâte de verre
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
1119
inscription
: 
Engraved On underside of base
SB / 545
label
: 
Sticker On underside of base Circular white sticker with black handwritten text.
Despret
signature
: 
Engraved On back of sculpture just above base in script
Copyright: 
© Georges Despret

Description

Primary Description: 
Opaque green, purple and translucent white glass; pate de verre technique. Statuette of a woman leaning on a pillar, with her drapery flowing around her (after the ancient Greek terracotta figures found at Tanagra). The top section is translucent white transitioning to opaque purple and then dark green.

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2008 (2009) illustrated, p. 2; BIB# AI94759