Burial Box Type II-Rose

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Burial Box Type II-Rose
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, OR, Portland
Accession Number: 
79.4.120
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.9 cm, W: 13.4 cm, D: 11.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
Web Description: 
Ben Tré’s sculptures, which often take the form of vessels, are inspired by elements of architecture and industry, such as columns, heavy stone fragments, ancient monoliths, and machine parts.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Ben Tre, Howard (American, 1949-2020), Source
1978-02
to
1979-09-21
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
amber
Technique: 
casting
Inscription: 
BEN TRE / 2/78
inscription
: 
base
Copyright: 
© Howard Ben Tre

Description

Primary Description: 
Amber glass; cast. Multi-sided heavy walled box; two flanges on each of the longer sides which resemble, in cross section, truncated triangles surmounted by rectangles; the two ends of the box are of a similar shape; interior cross section is an elongated hexagon; object rests on a pedestal base of same shape as its interior; signed on base "BEN TRE/ 2/78".

Exhibitions (3)

New Glass: Selections from a Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
SUNY, Cortland 1986-01-24 through 1986-02-21
Title Unknown (Residence of the United States Ambassador)
Venue(s)
Spaso House 1985-05 through 1991-06
(Residence of the United States Ambassador), Moscow, USSR
 
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 (3)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 22 (1980) illustrated, p. 102, #58; BIB# AI98082
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1979 (1980) p. 6; BIB# AI97143
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 50, #18; BIB# 20603