By the early 1960's the museum was selling silver jewelry, prints, books and many other items, sending Mr. Kelleher on searches around the world for artisans who could meet the Met's high standards in reproducing objects of glass and silver and making bronze and ceramic figurines.
Bead, small, usually round object made of glass, wood, metal, nut, shell, bone, seed, or the like, pierced for stringing.
The main objective of this paper is to provide a research work in the case of semi-transparent objects, i.e. objects that are transparent but also reflect light, typically objects made of glass.
The open space is dominated by a large object of faceted glass that resembles an immense diamond solitaire.
At best, objects made of glass could be classified as "decorative art".
The stimuli consisted of duplicate copies of objects made of glass, metal, or plastic that varied in shape, color, and size and were too heavy to be displaced by the animal.
Objects made of glass and metal can become very hot sitting next to a fire source.
Objects were made of glass or plastic and their weight was such that mice could not displace them.
Because Islam discouraged figurative imagery, the small geometric object of dark opaque glass with red and green wavy threads of color is not easy to distinguish as a chess piece (possibly a pawn).
Against a vacant background vaguely reminiscent of sand, the artist composes a geometric ensemble to anchor his main object of interest, a glass vessel filled with natural elements past their prime.
