Bowl in "Agata" Pattern

Object Name: 
Bowl in "Agata" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Bowl in "Agata" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
63.4.118
Dimensions: 
H: 7 cm, D(top): 13.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1887-1888
Credit Line: 
Gift of Fletcher Ford and Mrs. Sally Recker in memory of Lola Kincaid Ford
Primary Description: 
Pink shading to dark pink glass; free blown. Circular shape; out-turned scalloped rim; straight neck; bulbous lower body; polished pontil mark on base; color is dark pink at top shading to light pink at base, with a splotchy gold-colored stain on the sides which gives the ware its name, "Agata".

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Agata
Provenance: 
Recker, Mrs. Sally, Source
1963-09-26
Ford, Fletcher, Source
1963-09-26
Ford, Lola Kincaid, Former Collection
Color: 
Pink, dark pink
pink
Technique: 
Free blown

Publications (1)

Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002) illustrated, p. 86; BIB# 74885