Reginald Tower # 7
Artist: Richard Marquis (American, born 1945)
Artist: Waterford Crystal, Ltd. (Irish, 1783-2009, 2010-present)
Date: 1999
Dimensions:
H: 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm); Diam: 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
Medium: Blown, fused, cut, engraved, polished, and enameled glass (vessel); sandblasted (base); mold-cast, cut and polished (frog)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift from a private collection
Object number: 2014.34
DescriptionThe cylindrical vessel, flaring towards the rim, is constructed of brick-like colorless cane sections with thin edges in primary colors that are loosely fused together. In a random pattern, some of the “bricks” are engraved and enameled with black insects, such as centipedes, ants, beetles, and flies. The tower is fused to a lenticular hollow blown base with a satin-etched surface to which a few “bricks” are randomly fused. An engraved glass frog, a model commercially produced by the Waterford® Crystal factory, has been applied to the interior base of the cylinder.
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