Nymph
Sculpture
1983-1984 (made)
1983-1984 (made)
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The American Robert Willson collaborates each year with Alfredo Barbini in making glass sculpture. Inscription: "Robert Willson A. Barbini" Gift of the Duncan Foundation (through Friends of the V&A).
Object details
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Title | Nymph |
Materials and techniques | Handblown and worked glass with coloured inclusions |
Brief description | Sculpture, America, Robert Willson, for Alfredo Barbini, Murano, 1983-1984 |
Physical description | The American Robert Willson collaborates each year with Alfredo Barbini in making glass sculpture. Inscription: "Robert Willson A. Barbini" Gift of the Duncan Foundation (through Friends of the V&A). |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Robert Willson A. Barbini' (Signature) |
Gallery label | The American Robert Willson returns annually to Murano to work with Italian glasshouses. He has collaborated most frequently with Alfredo Barbini in making sculptural glass, but has also worked with Ermanno and Aldo Toso, of Fratelli Toso, and many others. Willson is also a water colourist, a sculptor who works in enamels and with reduction glazed porcelain. In Venice he works closely with the glass teams, directing the modelling of, and the inclusion of colours within the molten glass. |
Credit line | Given by the Duncan Foundation through the Friends of the V&A |
Bibliographic reference | Frantz, Susanne: Contemporary glass; Galleria Ravagnan, Venice: Robert Willson Glass Sculptures, 1994 |
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Accession number | C.226-1985 |
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Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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