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Primary Description:
Frosted, colorless, black, green, flesh tone and red tinted plate and tile glasses; steel backing; brass hardware; cast flat glass, sandblasted, cut, polished, cemented, bolted; blown wine glass. (a) Male torso with hat, seated at table with checkerboard tablecloth; figure holds wine glass in left hand; (d) hat consists of black glass oval and half circle with applied brass strip with six holes as headband; glasses are dark green glass triangular forms in brass frame bolted to face; (b) left profile face is green tinted sandblasted glass, with brass bracket at neckline bolted to backing; collar is oval of fleshtone glass; chest is two pieces of light green tinted glass representing shirt or vest, with three black glass buttons applied to left panel; arms consist of two pieces of light green glass; hands of sandblasted, pale green tinted glass, held to arms with brass bracket; drinking glass with cylindrical bowl, solid stem and flat disk foot is pinned to left hand; (c) ruby red insert in glass represents red wine or liquor; tablecloth consists of alternating black and white tiles in diamond shapes, cemented to supporting base.
Exhibitions (1)

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
Publications (13)
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990)
illustrated, pp. 100-101, #109;
BIB# 34475
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989)
illustrated, p. 102;
BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987)
illustrated, cover, p. 3;
BIB# 2318
Artists and Objects (1980)
illustrated, p. 5 (#18);
BIB# 720494