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Primary Description:
Colorless with transparent yellow/amber, green, red, amethyst glasses, black wrought iron; blown, picked-up murrine cane slices and shards, fabricated metal, assembled. Tall sculpture suggesting the appearance of a footed floral goblet; wrought iron stem and base in the form of a branch cradles suspended glass bowl in four leaf prongs; (a) almost spherical bowl with wide opening edged with a broad applied band of dark that tapers slightly inward; one side of body wall decorated with adjoining irregular, sometimes broken, circles varying in size of dark amethyst, the circles enclose smaller blown out cane slices of red with amber accents, as the circles near the pontil they enclose scattered green leaf cane slices, opposite are four large lobed flower blossoms formed of blown out yellow cane slices or shards with green leaf skeleton interiors, one flower has a long dark stem that extends over base and turns back on itself at the pontil, a large irregular patch of blue connects the group of three flowers; overall bubbles that are somewhat regular in size and in placement; narrow rough pontil; glass is supported and held in place by (b) tall wrought iron stem and base with hammered surface, narrow straight stem in the form of an uneven "Y-shaped" branch, the long end of the branch ends in a joint of two stacked squares, from these extend three small tapered leaves with overall surface of short parallel lines, one large three-lobed leaf with serrated edges also emerges from the joint as do two short stems, each stem ends in another joint formed of a stacked pair of rings, from each joint extend two large long pointed leaves which reach up and twist to enclose and hold the bowl, the short bare branch of the "Y" stem breaks into a "U", main stem extends through a conical joint and connects to a wide hollow conical iron base in the form of overlapping petals or scales with overall mottled surface, elements form a scalloped exterior edge; unsigned.
Exhibitions (2)

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory 2009-01-23 through 2009-02-01
The 55th Annual Winter Antiques Show

Umberto Bellotto 1882-1940: Ricami in Ferro e Vetro
Venue(s)
Galleria Daniela Balzaretti 1992-04 through 1992-04
Publications (9)
55th Winter Antiques Show, A Benefit for East Side House Settlement (2009)
illustrated, pp. 144-145;
BIB# 29139
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 147;
BIB# 68214
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 69, #111; back cover;
BIB# 65446
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 27;
BIB# 63967
Umberto Bellotto, 1882-1940: Ricami in Ferro e Vetro (1992)
pp. 40-41;