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Tonfall (from the Gilt Vase series)

Artist Erwin Eisch (German, 1927 - 2022)
Date1981
DimensionsH: 17 5/8 in. (44.8 cm); W: 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm); D: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
MediumBlown glass, silver, and gold leaf
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe
Object number
1991.93
On View
Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 2
Published ReferencesEisch-Angus, Katharina, Erwin Eisch: Wolken waren schon immer mein letzter Halt, Glas und Bilder = Clouds have been My Foothold All Along, Glass and Paintings, Munich, Hirmer Verlag, 2012, repr. (col.) p. 65.Exhibition HistoryLathrup Village, Michigan, Habatat Gallery, Harvey K. Littleton and Erwin Eisch, 1981.

Toledo Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, 1993-1995, pl. 13, p. 39, cat. no. 26, p. 195.

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