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Object NameNecklace

Maker Henny Wallstab (German, b. 1921)

Maker Kurt Wallstab (German, 1920-2002)

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Date1987

Techniquebeads: blown flamework

SizeL(strand): 66.4 cm, D(largest bead): 1 cm

Accession Number88.3.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Neuer Glasschmuck (New Glass Jewelry)

Place Made

West Germany

Physical DescriptionColorless, black, iridescence non-lead glasses; Wallstab beads: blown flamework (ovoid and long straight); metal oxides, salts and gold used for coloration. Necklace of alternating single and groups of beads (metal finish solid glass beads, rose quartz, seed pearls and flameworked); Wallstab flameworked beads are in two sizes--ten small straight tubes, five large blown ovoids, colorless glass has thin black oxide spiral wrap, "mother of pearl" iridization.
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