The Textures

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
The Textures
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
2001.3.30
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 33 cm, W: 33 cm, D: 17.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1996
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Primary Description: 
Colorless, translucent red, blue, and opaque white and black glass; hot-worked. Roughly square shape sculpture with applied layers, some of the layers being off-set to give and uneven appearence. Internal decoration of red, blue, white, and black swirls.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source
2001
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, translucent red, blue, opaque white and black
colorless
blue
Technique: 
hot-worked
Inscription: 
E?? Raffaelli
Signature
: 
Engraved On front bottom center.
Robert Willson
Signature
: 
Engraved On front bottom corner

Publications (1)

Robert Willson: Image-Maker (2001) p. 144; BIB# 71997