A Cup with Appeal, #2

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Object Name: 
Sculptural Vessel
Title: 
A Cup with Appeal, #2
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NC, Penland
Accession Number: 
79.4.131
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.7 cm, W (max): 13.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1977
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
Primary Description: 
Sculptural Vessel, "A Cup with Appeal #2". Yellow, black, green, white lead glass; blown, applied decoration, hot-worked. Ovoid cup of yellow glass with white overlay, green applied circles on sides, applied to a yellow banana with black stripes which forms a stem, applied handle of a green leaf and colorless cased over green glass with black stripes, all applied to an oval flat foot of colorless glass with a sandblasted surface.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Levin, Robert (American, b. 1948), Source
1977
to
1979-09-21
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Color: 
yellow
black
green
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
hot-working
sandblasting
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
Robert Levin 1977
signature
: 
Engraved black stripe of banana Engraved signature on one black stripe of banana "Robert Levin 1977".
Copyright: 
© Robert Levin

Exhibitions (2)

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
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 (4)

Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 171, #286; BIB# 58995
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 69, 96, pl. 110; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 96-97, #102; BIB# 34475
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 131, #120; BIB# 20603