Tessuto

Object NameVase

Artist Lino Tagliapietra (Italian, b. 1934)

Maker Effetre International

Made FromNon-lead Glass

Date1986

TechniqueBlown with trailed, "pick-up" decoration

SizeOverall H: 38.6 cm, W: 23 cm, D: 17 cm

Accession Number88.3.26

Credit LineGift of Emanuel and Phyllis Lacher

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass

Place Made

Italy

Physical DescriptionColorless, opaque white, black, red non-lead glasses; blown with trailed and "pick-up" decoration. Tall vase with "woven cane" decoration; lipless ovoid opening ground flat, slight shoulder swelling, sides tapering in towards base; colorless walls with overall decoration of narrow vertical white canes, overlaid with horizontal black spiral wrap, overlaid by narrow vertical red cane that end short of the rim and taper down at one side edge into a "V" pattern, overlaid by parallel broken rows of horizontal black cane that become full rings one-third distance from rim; base ground and polished, polished pontil; inscribed in script on base: "Lino Tagliapiertra / Effetre International / Murano Italy 1986 / 17 / 100".
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