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Landscape Pendant

Object NamePendant

Maker Frances Stewart Higgins (American, 1912-2004)

Maker Higgins Glass Studio (est. 1948)

Made Fromnon-lead glass, enamels

Date1988

Techniquecut, fused, fabricated

SizeL: 78.4 cm, W: 7 cm

Accession Number89.4.15

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale blue non-lead glass, yellow-green, orange, black enamels; cut sheet glass, fused with enamels in between, fabricated oxidized brass fused between glass. Rectangular pendant of blue glass with interior enameled decoration of stylized landscape (orange sun, three trees with black trunk and branches and green ground); top edge of pendant has embedded brass tube through which black cord runs; hanging on both sides of pendant are hammered brass lengths, two pair of blue glass etched beads separated by lengths of patinated brass tube and beads; tips of cord encircled by short lengths of brass tube; inscribed in script on lower front right corner; "higgins".
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