Tazza

Artist:Robert Mickelsen

Medium: Glass

Geograhical Locations:

Dates:1996

Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 x 5 1/4 in. (23.5 x 15.2 x 13.3 cm)

Collections:

Museum Location: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

Accession Number: 2001.131.4

Catalogue Description:
Tall glass vessel with inverted bell shaped colorless cup with wide, folded rim. Multi-colored twisted stem spirals to base. Climbing the stem is a monkey with brown and multicolored striped and mottled body. Its tail curls outward, and it wears a red and blue spiral-striped stovepipe hat. Holds a red and blue spiral-striped cane in right hand, while grasping the stem with its left. Stem raised on colorless domed base. CONDITION: Some very small nicks on top rim.

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