Cranberry Glass Berry Basket
Artist
Preston Singletary
(American (Tlingit), born 1963)
Date2019
MediumBlown and sand-carved glass
Dimensions4 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (12.1 × 15.9 × 15.9 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineGift of Virginia and John Hitch
Object number2021.21.2
On View
Not on viewtapering sides. It is blown from translucent, cranberry red glass with an opaque brick red lip wrap. The glass has an all-over raised pattern of small dots, gridded on the exterior surface to give the glass the appearance of a woven texture, as well as two small, stacked inverted V-shapes. Sand-carved geometric decorations (lines, triangles, rectangles with cuts, stepped lines) in opaque apricot-colored glass form a broad band around the exterior. The apricot glass began as an overlay, which was then sandcarved (sandblasted) to reveal the red glass beneath. On the base, the artist’s signature is incised into the glass in script: Preston Singletary 2019.
Unknown
late 16th - early 17th century
