Butterfly Finale

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Butterfly Finale
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
83.4.179
Dimensions: 
H: 30.1 cm, D: 24 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1983
Primary Description: 
Colorless, purple, black, white, yellow, red, gray glass; blown, applied and fused lampwork, abrasive etched. Cylindrical shape blown of colorless glass, lined with transparent purple on interior, applied white, yellow, black, red and gray stripes and threads; mottled surface on gray, layers sandblasted into geometric shapes, surface acid-etched on interior and exterior.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Series: 
Fireworks
Provenance: 
Heller Gallery, Source
1984-01-23
Color: 
colorless
purple
black
white
Technique: 
blown, applied and fused lampwork, abrasive etched
Inscription: 
David White/1983/Butterfly Finale 2
signature
Copyright: 
© David White

Exhibitions (3)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
Americans in Glass
Venue(s)
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum 1984-05-26 through 1984-07-08
 
Fireworks
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery 1983 through 1983

Publications (6)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 87; BIB# 130418
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 63, 95, pl. 97; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 108, #122; BIB# 34475
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 99; BIB# 32803
Recent Important Acquisitions, 26 (1984) illustrated, p. 151, #50; BIB# AI13534
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1983 (1984) p. 6; BIB# AI97139