Not on display

Nymph

Sculpture
1983-1984 (made)
Artist/Maker
Vetreria Alfredo Barbini (artist)
Willson, Robert (artist)
Place of origin
United States (made)

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

Categories
ELISE
Glass
Sculpture
Object type
Sculpture
TitleNymph
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).
Dimensions
  • Height: 38.2cm
  • Maximum width: 24.6cm
Style
20TH CONT
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
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.226-1985

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3506/nymph-sculpture-willson-robert/
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