Untitled Pyramid

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Untitled Pyramid
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
91.2.8
Dimensions: 
Part (a) H: 18.7 cm, L: 49.7 cm; Part (b) H: 18.6 cm, L: 49.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Primary Description: 
Colorless 6% lead glass, black and yellow stains; cast (lost wax), sandblasted. Two long low solid triangular (right angle) sections, each with narrow upper edge, body widening to base edge, upper half of each section striated with black blending into yellow stain, narrow end of each triangle cut off at right angle, wide end cast in jagged form to give interlocking appearance when ends are placed adjacent to each other and are slightly separated; upper and lower edges are ground flat and left unpolished, broad sides are polished, wide ends sandblasted to matte surface; inscribed near base on lower edge of each section: "Colin Reid 1986 R150 A (or) B".
Provenance: 
Greenberg, Daniel, Source
1991-07-30
Steinhauser, Susan, Source
1991-07-30
Category: 
Inscription: 
Colin Reid 1986 R 150 A (or) B
Inscription; Date; Signature
inscribed near base on lower edge of each section
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Yokohama Museum of Art 1992-10-12 through 1992-12-13
Title Unknown (Kurland/Summers Gallery)
Venue(s)
Kurland/Summers Gallery 1987 through 1987
 
Colin Reid: An American Perspective (2013) illustrated, p. 94; BIB# 136383
Recent Important Acquisitions, 34 (1992) illustrated, p. 149, #53; BIB# AI30154
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, pp. 138-139, #140; BIB# 35679