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Object Name3 Christmas Ornaments

Maker Roberto Niederer

Made FromGlass

Date1959

Place MadeSwitzerland

Techniquelampworked

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number61.3.222

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless glass; lampworked. (A) Symmetrical three-dimensional shape consisting of hollow sphere, D: about 2.2 cm, from which radiate twelve equidistant, almost identical, elongated, hollow projections, each slightly bulbous at inner end; eleven of these taper almost to point, while twelfth terminates in small loop for suspension. (B) Symmetrical three-dimensional shape consisting of hollow sphere, D: about 2.6 cm, from which radiate twelve equidistant, almost identical, elongated, hollow projections, each slightly bulbous at inner end; eleven of these taper almost to point, while twelfth terminates in loop for suspension. (C) Symmetrical three-dimensional shape consisting of hollow sphere, D: about 2.0 cm, from which radiate twelve equidistant, almost identical, elongated, hollow projections, each slightly bulbous at inner end; eleven of these taper almost to point, while twelfth terminates in loop for suspension.
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