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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Opalescent white, colorless, bright blue non-lead glass, rubber; blown, trailed threading, drilled, machined metal fittings, assembled. (a) Wide, circular form, with domed opalescent white center/top, a wide fold inside, flaring to a wide, flat, circular disk with folded rim and trailed blue thread; three pointed turned brass fittings piercing the disk, with black rubber washer/spacers below; signed (abraded script) "Walter White Benjamin P. Moore © 1983"; electrical socket at the center, with ribbed tubular white porcelain fitting for a cylindrical light bulb with sandblasted spiral pattern; white electrical cord and plug on top; (b) conical, straight-sided form, of colorless glass with opalescent white casing, and trailed fine blue threading from top to bottom; flared, flat disk at the top, with thickly folded rim; pierced with three holes, with inserted black rubber grommets.
Publications (4)
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989)
illustrated, p. 76;
BIB# 32803
New Glass Review, 5 (1984)
illustrated, p. 25, #97;