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Loan Exhibition
The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from
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Installation views of the 2009 Winter Antiques Show loan
exhibition from the Corning Museum of Glass
Installation view of the 2009 Winter Antiques Show loan
exhibition from the Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass. The museum will display more than 50 exceptional objects at the 55th annual Winter Antiques Show. The loan exhibition presented works spanning four continents, more than three millennia, and the full range of artistic ingenuity and technical innovation in glass. Internationally renowned Vignelli Associates created the loan exhibition installation for the Winter Antiques Show.
Amphoriskos (miniature amphora). Eastern Mediterranean or Italy, late third to second century B.C. Cane slices fused and shaped by slumping and tooling. This unique object was made in two parts attached at the shoulder with rivets. The missing handles were also attached with rivets: two in the neck and two in the shoulder.
Covered Jar. Venice or Low Countries, late 16th to early 17th century. Vetro a filigrana (blown glass made with colorless and white canes), tooled. The white canes decorating this piece were formed and then arranged on the inside of a mold so that they could be picked up on a gather of colorless glass and tooled into the soft surface.
Sugar Bowl and Cream Pitcher. U.S., New York, probably Redwood or Redford Glass Works, 1835–1850. Blown, applied; coins enclosed in stems. Each stem encloses a U.S. silver half dime. The coin in the creamer is dated 1829, and that in the sugar bowl is dated 1835. There is another 1829 coin in the hollow knop of the sugar bowl’s lid. This pair of objects was probably made by a glassblower on his own time as a gift for his mother or wife. The Redwood and Redford glasshouses, both in northern New York State, made window glass, not tableware.
Bottiglia allegria (Happiness bottle). Italy, Murano, Vetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso, Dino Martens (Italian, 1894–1970), 1952. Blown zanfirico glass. This is an extraordinary example of the Muranese technique of picking up a flat arrangement of canes on a cylindrical marvered bubble of glass with neither overlap nor gaps, and without disturbing the arrangement.
The Corning Museum of Glass is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass from all periods and cultures, ranging from ancient Egyptian and Renaissance Venetian masterpieces to contemporary works by such masters as Dale Chihuly and Josiah McElheny. The Museum’s scientific and technological exhibits—featuring interactive installations, original film footage, and objects such as the world’s largest piece of cast glass and intricately faceted lighthouse lamps—tell the story of historic advancements and contemporary innovations in glass technology. Live glassblowing demonstration stages and a state-of-the-art glassmaking studio are just two of the museum’s many resources. An Artist-in-Residence program gives six artists annually the opportunity to expand their work and to master new techniques. The Museum also houses the Rakow Research Library, the world’s foremost library on the art and history of glass and glassmaking. Two scholarly publications, New Glass Review and Journal of Glass Studies, are published annually by the Museum. For more information, please visit www.cmog.org.
For members of the press interested in viewing additional objects included in The Corning Museum of Glass loan exhibition, please visit our Image Gallery.
Winter Antiques Show Celebrates its 55th Year with a Loan Exhibition from the Corning Museum of Glass (PDF).
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