Clearly Indigenous Audio Exhibition
Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps
Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps, 2008, Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941), blown glass, Courtesy of Chihuly Studio, © Dale Chihuly
Verbal Description
Hello, I’m Amy Dehan, the museum’s curator of Decorative Arts and Design. I will be sharing a description of Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps by Dale Chihuly in Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.
Dale Chihuly, an American artist born in 1941, created the blown glass work, Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps, in 2008. It is in the exhibition courtesy of the Chihuly Studio.
Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps is a three-dimensional blown glass sculpture. Shown in the round in a case with another object, the work measures 13 inches tall, 27 inches wide, and a has a diameter of 30 inches, or 33 centimeters tall, 68.6 centimeters wide, and has a diameter of 76.2 centimeters. In this object, three organically shaped rounded vessels nestle into each other. The largest vessel has a low wall and a wide mouth. It holds a slightly smaller vessel with high walls and a wide mouth that lies on its side. Nestled inside this, two smaller round vessels rest side by side. The body of each of the components of this piece is honey gold, accented with threads of a deep oxblood red running throughout; the rims of each vessel are also this dark red hue.
Label Audio
Hello, I’m Amy Dehan, the museum’s curator of Decorative Arts and Design. I will be sharing the label for Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps by Dale Chihuly in Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.
Dale Chihuly, an American artist born in 1941, created the blown glass work, Tabac Basket Set with Drawing Shards and Oxblood Body Wraps in 2008. It is in the exhibition courtesy of the Chihuly Studio.
Tabac Baskets, Chihuly’s first basket series, broke new ground in glassblowing and reflect his push to take full advantage of the properties of molten glass, utilizing not only breath in blowing but also gravity to achieve the abstracted and asymmetrical shapes for which he is famous. He also began nesting baskets together in this series, inspired by the nesting of Salish fiber baskets. This Tabac Basket Set was made in 2008 when Chihuly revisited this series for a museum exhibition.