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sculpture

Object NameVessel

Designer Robert C. Fritz (American, 1920-1986)

Studio California State University

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1966

Place MadeUnited States, CA, San Jose

TechniqueBlown, hot-worked

SizeOverall H: 20.1 cm, W: 19.4 cm, D: 15.3 cm

Accession Number89.4.23

Credit LineGift of the Robert C. Florian Estate

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Decades in Glass: The 60's

On ViewModern Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

In 1964, Fritz founded the well-known glass arts program at San Jose State University.

Physical DescriptionVessel. Transparent olive-green and brown non-lead glasses, probably #475 marbles; blown, hot-worked. Bulbous asymmetrical green vessel with extensive trailed decoration, hot-formed leaving several openings on the top, side has been pierced and pushed inside vessel leaving a forked internal "bridge" trail; base ground flat, rough pontil; inscribed in block letters near base: "FRITZ".
Provenance

Source Estate of Robert C. Florian (American, 1926-1989)

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