Letter of Stone

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Letter of Stone
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
2001.3.21
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 41.9 cm, W: 27.9 cm, D: 8.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1983
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Primary Description: 
Colorless, translucent turquoise, and opaque white glass. Hot worked; gold foil inclusions. Roughly rectangular shape sculpture with gold foil backgroud, a turquoise blob in the upper right corner and applied white squiggles on the front.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source
2001
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, translucent turquoise, opaque white, gold
colorless
Technique: 
Hot worked; gold foil inclusions
Inscription: 
Robert Willson / Barbini / Murano
Signature
: 
on back @l lower left and lower right script

Exhibitions (1)

Robert Willson: A Texan in Venice
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-05-15 through 2003-11-09

Publications (3)

Notes: Corning Museum Receives Willson Gift (2002) illustrated, p. 205, fig. 3;
Robert Willson: Image-Maker (2001) p. 125; BIB# 71997
Corning Museum Receives Willson Gift (2001) illustrated, pp. 204-206, fig. 3;