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Sculpture, "Africa". Colorless, blue, white, and green glasses, dark blue glass powder; fused, optic-molded, blown. Spherical sculpture or sculptural vessel made of murrine romane (roman mosaic) glass. The piece started as a flat fused rectangle of murrine romane completely covered with a colorless layer of glass. The piece was heated and picked up on the blowpipe in the middle. It was blown and shaped and then dipped into an optic "pineapple" mold. Glass powder was applied, which stuck in the depressions created by the optic mold. The piece continued to be worked and gradually enlarged, the murrine romane expanding to look almost like filigrana. The finished sculpture has a colorless body laden with transparent light blue patches and evenly-spaced dark blue spots. Alternating yellow and white spirals cover body as well. Thin white lines fan out around rim; wavy white lines form band around midsection and around foot. Very narrow inverted rim. Short cylindrical colorless foot.
Publications (4)
Recent Important Acquisitions (New Glass Review 36) (2015)
illustrated, p. 125 (top right);
BIB# AI99415
The Corning Museum of Glass: Notable Acquisitions 2014 (2015)
illustrated, p. 63 (#44);
BIB# AI100547
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2014 (2014)
illustrated, p. 34;
BIB# 706293