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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Pale Green Free Standing Air Sculpture
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Pale Green Free Standing Air Sculpture

Manufacturer Dominick Labino (American, 1910 - 1987)
CultureAmerican
Date1968
MediumFree blown glass
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 3/16 x 2 1/2 in. (5.6 x 6.4 cm)
InscribedMarked on polished pontil with diamond point in script: "Labino 1968" and paper tag from Mr. Labino: "No. 2074 Dominick Labino Free Hand-blown glass value $100-".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6922
Not on view
DescriptionVase of free-hand blown pale green glass. Standing air sculpture. Minute bubbles. Thick and heavy. Free form cylindrical slightly larger at the bottom. Small central opening from the top down two-thirds with two small side openings across from each other. One is a little higher. Two opposite openings each a separate hollow about 1/4 from bottom. Polished pontil. Mr. Labino's description: "Pale green free standing air sculpture, free handblown while the glass was molten."

Exhibition History"Studio Glass from the Permanent Collection," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, June 16 - Nov. 13, 1994
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Dominick Labino
1968
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Dominick Labino
1973
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Dominick Labino
1972
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Cristallerie Schneider
No Date
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Dominick Labino
1971
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1830
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020
Tiffany Studios
ca. 1905
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Dominick Labino
1976
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2024.
Cedric Major Mitchell
2023
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Unknown
1st century A.D.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Kosta Glassworks
ca. 1960