Sphere

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Sphere
Accession Number: 
2001.4.265
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.4 cm, Diam: 12.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1995
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Primary Description: 
a) Colorless glass, opaque white glass; hot-worked. Colorless sphere with opaque white swirls and air-traps. b) Stand: colorless glass cube with circular depression on top.
Provenance: 
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source
2001
Technique: 
Inscription: 
Robert Hamon
Signature
Engraved On bottom of sphere.
Robert Willson
Signature
Engraved On bottom of sphere
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-05-15 through 2003-11-09
Robert Willson: Image-Maker (2001) p. 103; BIB# 71997