Potsherd

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Object Name: 
Necklace
Title: 
Potsherd
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands
Accession Number: 
92.3.10
Dimensions: 
L: 38.5 cm, W: 31 cm (varys per arrangement)
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1990
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass (matte finish), black rubber, metallic gold; glass sections are ground on the edges, sandblasted, acid-etched; rubber sections pulled through drilled holes in glass; gold leaf adhered with Mixtonia Dorer Clarifiée. Necklace comprised of fifteen irregular non-identical pieces of slightly curved window glass, each section has polished edges, matte finish and decorated with scattered minute gold dots on both sides; sections connected by thin lengths of black rubber cord with tapered ends passed through drilled holes at ends of each overlapping section.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Zwinkels, Marijke C., Source
1992-01-20
Category: 
Jewelry
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
ground, sandblasted, acid-etched
sandblasting
ground glass

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Gottschalk/Betz Gallerie)
Venue(s)
Gottschalk/Betz Gallerie 1990 through 1990

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1992 (1993) p. 11; BIB# AI96377