Totem

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Totem
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
81.3.28
Dimensions: 
Overall H (without base): 220 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1980
Primary Description: 
Transparent cobalt blue, amber glass; mold-melted, cut, assembled.
Provenance: 
Art Centrum, Former Collection
1981
Category: 
Material: 
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
Czechoslovakian Glass 1350-1980
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1981-05-02 through 1981-11-01
Six centuries of objects from five Czechoslovakian museums and more than 20 contemporary Czech glass artists. From the geographic region of Czechoslovakia known as Bohemia, came (and continues to come) a dazzling sequence of decorative designs and techniques for the embellishment of glass. The history of the Czechoslovakian artist is not simply a catalog of applied decorative techniques, but a sequential array of innovations and improvements that have often set the standard for the rest of the world.
 
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 142, #241; BIB# 58995
Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 112, #74; BIB# AI9252
Czechoslovakian Glass: 1350-1980 (Exhibition) (1981) illustrated, pp. 144, 163, #144; BIB# 30316