3 Small Circular Plaques

Object Name: 
3 Small Circular Plaques

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Object Name: 
3 Small Circular Plaques
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
U.S.S.R.
Accession Number: 
91.3.27
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Credit Line: 
Gift of Nikita Borisovich Smirnov
Primary Description: 
(A) Transparent green, (B) colorless, (C) transparent amber non-lead glass; molded. Three small circular plaques with intaglio designs: (A) depicts stylized glassblower sitting at bench in front of furnace with bubbles on both end of blow pipe, impressed section at top has drilled hole, side with design in relief has been ground flat; (B) same as (A) but slightly smaller, not drilled or ground; (C) smallest of three, design in high relief of head in profile wearing conical helmut or hat; unsigned.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Smirnov, Nikita Borisovich, Source
Color: 
Transp. green, colorless,amber
colorless
amber
Technique: 
molding

Objects in Set (3)

Small Circular Plaque
Artist:Smirnov, Boris Aleksandrovich
Date:1978
Accession Number:91.3.27 A
Small Circular Plaque
Artist:Smirnov, Boris Aleksandrovich
Date:1978
Accession Number:91.3.27 B
 
Small Circular Plaque
Artist:Smirnov, Boris Aleksandrovich
Date:1978
Accession Number:91.3.27 C