Burmese Gold Float with Oxblood Jimmies

Dale Chihuly

1992

  • Titles Burmese Gold Float with Oxblood Jimmies (Proper)
  • Artist Dale Chihuly, American, born 1941
  • Medium glass
  • Dimensions 26 x 27 in. (66 x 68.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by George W. Barber, Jr. and Fritz and Lynn Woehle, 1994.35.2, image © Dale Chihuly
  • Work Type sculpture
  • Classification Sculpture

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