Waterford Tower

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Waterford Tower
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Ireland, Waterford
Accession Number: 
2012.2.7
Dimensions: 
Overall H: about 36 cm, W: about 44.5 cm, D: about 25.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1999
Web Description: 
This tower was made during the short-lived artist-in-residence program organized by Waterford Crystal in Ireland, and it was inspired by the crumbling castles of the region. Marquis made murrine out of Waterford’s trademark colorless lead glass as his building blocks for the tower, adding two Waterford Crystal dogs as guardians. Marquis, who owned two Labrador retrievers at the time, was particularly pleased to be given a box of the glass dogs to use during his residency.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Marquis, Richard (American, b. 1945), Source
1999
to
2012-09-04
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
multicolored
Technique: 
glassblowing
assembling
Material: 
glass
found objects
Inscription: 
© 1998 Marquis
signature
: 
Engraved on side of base
Copyright: 
© Richard Marquis

Description

Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Waterford Tower". Colorless and multicolored glass and glass murrine, found glass objects; blown, assembled and fused. Primarily colorless sculpture consisting of an oval matte base upon which two colorless sitting dogs flank a tall straight-sided oval vessel made of fused square murrine slices. Some murrine slices have edges striped in colored glass.

Exhibitions (1)

The Way of the Artist (solo exhibition)
Venue(s)
California State University 2007-03

Publications (3)

2015 Calendar Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, title leaf, November; BIB# 142518
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (2014-12) illustrated, November;
The way of the artist: reflections on creativity and the life, home, art, and collections of Richard Marquis (2007) p. 109; BIB# 103246