Old Wave (Harbor Wave)

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Old Wave (Harbor Wave)
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
2001.3.35
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 36.8 cm, W: 22.9 cm, D: 15.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1992
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Primary Description: 
Colorless, opaque white, transparent blue and pink glass; hot-worked, applied, inclusions. Roughly block shaped sculpture with wave peaks at top, applied opaque white wave pattern at about mid-body. Interior of sculpture scattered with blue, pink and white inclusions.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source
2001
Color: 
Colorless, opaque white, transparent blue, pink
colorless
Technique: 
hot-worked, applied, inclusions
Inscription: 
Barbini / murano
Signature
: 
Engraved On back, lower right corner.
Robert Willson
Signature
: 
Engraved On back, lower left corner.

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (1)

Robert Willson: Image-Maker (2001) p. 116; BIB# 71997