The Corning Museum of Glass recently acquired several unique pieces of glass for its extensive collection.
Among the new acquisitions is an 18th-Century cut glass chandelier with 12 arms, created between 1760 and 1765.
The chandelier has been installed in the museum’s crossroads and is currently on view.
The museum also took possession of a much more modern chandelier, a glass sphere designed in 1962 by Ingeborg Lundin, the first woman hired to design for Orrefors Glasbruk in Sweden.
The chandelier hung in the foyer of the former B’nai Israel synagogue in Elmira until 2012, when the congregation moved to another location.
Additionally, the museum obtained a turquoise cactus bead by contemporary American glass beadmaker Kristina Logan, and a shift side table created by Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz.
Other acquisitions include two publications — an art deco trade catalog from DeVilbiss Company of Toledo, Ohio, a luxury glass company, and Modernt Svenskt Glas, published in 1943 for the anniversary of the birth of Edward Hald (1883–1980), a designer at the Swedish glassworks Orrefors.
The publications are in the museum’s Rakow Library.
