Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Frances Higgins experimented with glass as early as 1942 by bending and shaping flat glass in a kiln. She sandwiches eye-catching hues of enamel between layers of translucent glass. The gold pigment applied to "Drop-out" Bowl enhances its overlapping colors and textured form.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Frances Higgins, born Haddock, GA 1912-died Riverside, IL 2004
- Date
- 1988
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance
- Medium
- fused and enameled glass
- Dimensions
- 6 1/2 x 11 in. (16.5 x 27.9 cm) diam.
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Glass
- Crafts
