Bedrich Smetana

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Object Name: 
Plaque
Title: 
Bedrich Smetana
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Accession Number: 
78.3.49
Dimensions: 
Overall D: 1.9 cm, Diam (max): 15 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Primary Description: 
Plaque, "Bedrich Smetana". Colorless glass; cast, polished, copperwheel engraved. Circular shape, beveled edges; obverse: polished, reverse: copperwheel engraved with portrait of man in right profile with beard and mustache.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Art Centrum, Source
1978-12-29
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
casting
polishing
engraving
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
B. Smetana J Harcuba 1978
signature
: 
at base of edge in script

Exhibitions (3)

Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1987-05-16 through 1987-10-25
Toledo Museum of Art 1988-01-10 through 1988-02-21
New Glass: Selections from a Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
SUNY, Cortland 1986-01-24 through 1986-02-21
 
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art

Publications (5)

Jiri Harcuba (2008) illustrated, p. 46, 118; BIB# 124228
Jiri Harcuba (2007) illustrated, p. 12; BIB# 104062
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 120; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 3; BIB# 2318
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 93, #73; BIB# 20603