Yellow Skull

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Yellow Skull
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
81.3.37
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.8 cm, W: 16.3 cm, D: 15.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1970
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass encasing amber and pale blue or green tinted glass; multiple gathers and metallic (silver nitrate?) 'veils'; formed hot, cut and polished. Ovoid shape resembles human skull; "Brain" represented by interior amber and pale blue or green tinted gather with numerous cords encasing ovoid shape bubble; colorless glass gather encases 'brain' structure and has iridescent 'veiled' surface; separate gathers of colorless glass represent eyes, bubbles depict teeth, nostrils, and the symmetrical division of the brain; entire structure again cased in colorless glass; the left eye socket deeply cut and polished; signed on base "R. Goldoni/70".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Heller Gallery, Source
1981-05-21
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
formed hot, cut, polished
cut glass

Exhibitions (2)

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show
Harvey Littleton and Raoul Goldoni, Masters of Light, Volume, and Space
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery 1980-11-26 through 1980-12-20
 

Publications (4)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 24; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 3; BIB# 2318
Recent Important Acquisitions, 24 (1982) illustrated, p. 109, #65; BIB# AI9252
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1981 (1982) illustrated, pp. 5, 10; BIB# AI97141