Dale Chihuly and Italo Scanga Documented Historic Early White Cylinder with Drawings Handblown Glass

Artist: Dale Chihuly and Italo Scanga Title: White Early Cylinder with Drawings Medium: Handblown glass Size: 8 1/2” × 7 ½” Year: 1974 Condition: Very good condition overall, please request a full report for condition details Documentation: Includes Gallery Certificate of Authenticity The American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly is well-known for his innovative techniques for creating handblown glass sculptures. His glass practice is a departure from traditional symmetrical and perfectly formed vessels. Instead, his works embrace asymmetry and irregular shapes to create unique sculptural forms. Chihuly began the series Cylinders consisting of vessels reminiscent of Native American textiles and designs in 1974. He recreated the simple motifs and intricate patterns of blankets into cylindrical glass vessels. To achieve this, Chihuly and his team developed the revolutionary glassblowing technique of “pick-up drawing” to create glass thread drawings fused into molten glass bubbles. This meth