Chartreuse Pair

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Object Name: 
Vessels
Title: 
Chartreuse Pair
Maker(s): 
Marioni, Dante (American, b. 1964), Artist
Place Made: 
United States, WA, Seattle
Accession Number: 
2016.4.1
Dimensions: 
(a) Pitcher H: 89.2 cm; (a) Pitcher Foot Diam: 16.4 cm; (b) Footed Cup H: 43.7 cm, W: 29 cm, D: 23.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
2005
Web Description: 
Dante Marioni works in original ways with traditional Venetian glassblowing and decorating techniques. Using Pop Art–influenced, comic-book colors paired with classical forms, he has developed several series of vessels that look contemporary while simultaneously paying homage to the history of Italian glass.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Marioni Studio, Source
2005
to
2016-01-26
Color: 
yellowish green
orange
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied
hot-working
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
Marioni '05
signature
: 
Engraved (b) on top of foot
Copyright: 
© Dante Marioni

Description

Primary Description: 
Vessels, "Chartreuse Pair". Colorless, opaque yellowish green, and orange glasses; blown, applied, hot-worked. (a) attenuated to pitcher shape in yellow green with orange band at rim, neck, base, orange stem and handle. (b) attenuated two handled vessel derived from the shape of the ancient Greek kylix; hemispherical bowl with two large curving handles rising from near base atop merese and tall trumpet stem/foot; orange band at rim and edge of foot, handles orange as is merese between bowl and stem.