Tree Altar

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Tree Altar
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
2001.3.22
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 35.5 cm, W: 22.8 cm, D: 12.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1983
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Primary Description: 
Colorless, opaque white, translucent red and blue glass; gold foil inclusions; hot-worked, applied. Rectangular shape sculpture with a applied white strip up the center surrounded by 5 applied globs that have red, white and blue stripes on them. Gold foil inclusions in the center of the sculpture behind the "tree" decoration on the front.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source
2001
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, opaque white, translucent red, blue, gold
colorless
blue
Technique: 
gold foil inclusions; hot-worked, applied
Inscription: 
A. Barbini
Signature
: 
Engraved On short side. in script

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. 124; BIB# 71997