Gilded Naples Yellow Float (from the Niijima Float Series)
Gilded Naples Yellow Float (from the Niijima Float Series)
Artist
Dale Chihuly
(American, born 1941)
Date1992
DimensionsH: 16 in.; W: 16 in.; Diam.: 17 in.
MediumBlown glass, with applied color and gold leaf.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Georgia E. Welles
Object number
2013.35
Not on View
DescriptionBlown colorless glass with opaque white overlay, expanded into a sphere, then decorated with pale yellow glass and sheets of gold leaf that shattered when the bubble was blown into the shape of a large orb.
Published ReferencesCf. Krakauer, Jon. "Dale Chihuly Has Turned Art Glass into a Red-Hot Item," Smithsonian, February 1992, no. 11, pp. 90-96, 98-101.
DeWitte, Debra J., et al., Gateways to Art Journal: For Museum and Gallery Projects, Second edition, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2015, repr. (col.) fig. 48, p. 34.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, Charles Cowles Gallery, Dale Chihuly – New Work, February 8 – March 21, 1992Toledo Museum of Art, Glass by Dale Chihuly, April 1 – June 30, 1993.
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
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