goblet

Object Name6 "New Mexico" Goblets

Artist Josh Simpson (American, b. 1949)

Made FromGlass

Date1978

Place MadeUnited States, MA, Shelburne Falls

TechniqueBlown, cased

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number83.4.5

Credit LineGift of Dolores Root

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey

Not On View

Physical Description6 "New Mexico" Goblets. Colorless and translucent purple glass, with cream, gray and blue decoration; purple gather marvered to pick up particles of cream, gray and blue, then cased in colorless; blown, tooled. Tulip-shaped bowl. Rim: plain, rounded; wall descends almost vertically, then tapers inward to bottom; stem solid, narrow, with vertical side which splays at bottom and merges with low conical foot which is slightly concave on underside and has pontil mark. Bowl is purple cased with colorless, decorated with network of streaks and swirls of cream, gray and blue which in places create marbled effect; stem and foot colorless.
Provenance

Source Dolores Root - 1983-01-12