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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Description
Primary Description:
Multicolored pastel lead glass; cast (lost wax), pate de verre. Irregular rectangle; one solid piece of glass with deep undercut, depicting a pile of ivy leaves from which various life-sized elements emerge (vine, garden snake, morel mushrooms, white cap mushrooms, one peanut, two acorns, two strawberries, one button, cicada, one horsefly, rocks, black-eyed Susans, pine cone, two feathers, one apple leaf); coloration provided by gradations within glass (rather than surface applications on colorless); inscribed "Anderson 092486".
Exhibitions (1)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations
Venue(s)
Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village 2005-04 through 2006-01
Publications (6)
Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations (2005)
illustrated, p. 42, fig. 59;
BIB# 87714
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989)
illustrated, p. 237;
BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987)
p. 3;
BIB# 2318