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Object Name: 
9-part Sculpture
Title: 
Untitled
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
87.4.22
Dimensions: 
H: 20.2 cm, W: 39.3 cm, L: 25.8 cm; (a) H: 18.9 cm, L: 19.3 cm, W: 6.7 cm; (b) H: 19 cm, L: 20.3 cm, W: 6.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1987
Primary Description: 
Colorless soda-lime glass, brass; cast by sagging into refractory mold, cut, polished, acid-etched (overall). Six, solid, wedge-shaped segments that are placed together vertically approximately 1/4" segment; apart to form a curved horizontal broad flat sides of each wedge are unmarked except for etching; upper side is molded in irregular, low relief; exterior sides have same overall relief pattern and a deeply inset notch in upper third, when all sections are in position the notch forms a continuous, inset, horizontal shelf that on one end meets another inset line that angles from the shelf to base of piece; resting with shelf are three solid, geometric, metal sections that are grouped together to resemble architecture; inscribed: "Andre Billeci".
Provenance: 
Billeci, Andre (American, 1933-2011), Source
1987-05-20
Category: 
Color: 
Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, pp. 118-119, #49; BIB# AI20606