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Waterford Tower

Object NameSculpture

Artist Richard Marquis (American, b. 1945)

Manufacturer Waterford Crystal

Made FromGlass, Found Objects

Date1999

Place MadeIreland, Waterford

TechniqueBlown, assembled, fused

SizeOverall H: about 36 cm, W: about 44.5 cm, D: about 25.5 cm

Accession Number2012.2.7

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

The Way of the Artist (solo exhibition)

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

This tower was made during the short-lived artist-in-residence program organized by Waterford Crystal in Ireland, and it was inspired by the crumbling castles of the region. Marquis made murrine out of Waterford’s trademark colorless lead glass as his building blocks for the tower, adding two Waterford Crystal dogs as guardians. Marquis, who owned two Labrador retrievers at the time, was particularly pleased to be given a box of the glass dogs to use during his residency.

Physical DescriptionSculpture, "Waterford Tower". Colorless and multicolored glass and glass murrine, found glass objects; blown, assembled and fused. Primarily colorless sculpture consisting of an oval matte base upon which two colorless sitting dogs flank a tall straight-sided oval vessel made of fused square murrine slices. Some murrine slices have edges striped in colored glass.
Provenance

Source Richard Marquis (American, b. 1945) - 1999-2012-09-04