Marquiscarpa #95-5

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Marquiscarpa #95-5
Accession Number: 
2020.4.5
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 34.5 cm, W: 45.5 cm, D: 12 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1995
Credit Line: 
Gift of Pamela Lee Biallas
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Marquiscarpa #95-5". Opaque black, yellow, green, red, and white glass; fused, blown murrine, fused and slumped murrine, ground, bonded, assembled. Abstract boat-shaped form with scalloped rim and base; boat form is joined to a tall conical foot with a depressed, round, pillow-like knop. Boat-shaped form is made of yellow dots and washes of a yellow checkerboard pattern set within a black matrix; decorative cane slices (two small white stars, a white and green dollar sign, a shooting star with rainbow tail, a multicolored teapot in a pink matrix, and a MARQUIS signature cane slice) are embedded within this top form. The knop is made of four-sided yellow canes with black centers; canes are arranged both singularly and in groups of four and set within a green matrix. Conical foot is made of white shapes set within a yellow and red mottled matrix; thick black trails applied to top and bottom of foot. Conical base is secured to knop with silicone.
Provenance: 
Biallas, Pamela Lee, Source
2020-12-18
Elliott Brown Gallery, Former Collection
Material: 
Inscription: 
MARQUIS
signature
Embedded in boat form white cane slice with dark text
Richard Marquis Objects: 1967-1997 (Documents Northwest)
Venue(s)
Seattle Art Museum 1997-12-19 through 1998-08-02
Marquis
Venue(s)
Franklin Parrasch Gallery 1995 through 1995
 
Richard Marquis: Objects (1997) illustrated, p. 121; BIB# 59475
Richard Marquis (1995) illustrated, p. 2 (right);