Lord's Prayer Murrina

Object Name: 
Lord's Prayer Murrina

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Object Name: 
Lord's Prayer Murrina
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, CA, Chico
Accession Number: 
94.4.111 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.7 cm, W: 2.2 cm, D: 0.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1972
Credit Line: 
Gift of the artist
Web Description: 
In 1972, Marquis completed his master’s thesis at Berkeley with a masterpiece of murrine making: a complex word cane of the Lord’s Prayer. Marquis was familiar with the long tradition of the Lord’s Prayer in American popular culture, and as a fan of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, he knew that the prayer had been inscribed on the head of a pin. Because the pattern of the hot murrine cane can be infinitely stretched out, the words can be relatively large (that is, readable) or reduced to the size of a Ripley’s pinhead. The Museum owns several examples of Marquis’s justly famous murrine in different sizes, including a tiny piece of cane, enclosed in a cardboard holder, in which the microscopic words of the prayer fit into a space even smaller than that of a pinhead.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Marquis, Richard (American, b. 1945), Former Collection
1994
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Color: 
red
white
black
colorless
Technique: 
cutting
fused
hot-working
drawn glass
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Richard Marquis

Description

Primary Description: 
Opaque white, red, "black" glass; fused murrine cane, cut.

Exhibitions (1)

Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Marquis
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2013-02-16 through 2014-02-02
This exhibition is part of the Corning Museum’s ongoing Masters of Studio Glass series developed to provide a platform for in-depth surveys of artists represented in the Museum’s permanent collection.

Publications (8)

Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Marquis (2012) illustrated, p. 6 (top, third from right); BIB# AI93447
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 58; BIB# 96551
The Techniques of Mosaic Glass, Millefiori and . . . Filligree (2001) illustrated, p. 23, #4;
The Techniques of Mosaic Glass, Millefiori and ... Filligree (2001) illustrated, p. 23 (no. 4); BIB# AI53883
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 98, #173; BIB# 65446
Richard Marquis: Objects (1997) illustrated, p. 52, #18; BIB# 59475
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1994 (1995) p. 19; BIB# AI95181
Cane and Murrine Decoration in 20th Century Glass (1995) illustrated, cover; BIB# AI35091

Objects in Set (2)

Lord's Prayer Murrina
Artist:Marquis, Richard
Date:1972
Accession Number:94.4.111
Lord's Prayer Murrina
Artist:Marquis, Richard
Date:1972
Accession Number:94.4.111 B