Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
Southern Bohemia
Accession Number: 
68.3.66
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.5 cm, Diam (rim); 10.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1840
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Beaker. Opaque white, green, and pink non-lead glass; blown, cut. Green overlay on white, on pink; waisted form with bulbous rim at the bottom; cut rim; panel-cut sides with stylized foliate motifs; swags cut at base; cylindrical foot rim; polished pontil mark.

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Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Pollak, Albert, Former Collection
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1968-12
Color: 
Opaque white, green, pink
green
Technique: 
Blown, Cut

Exhibitions (2)

The Tradition of the Avant-Garde: Bohemian Glass 1820-1935
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-05-19 through 2005-10-30
Glaser der Spatzeit
Venue(s)
Osterreichisches Museum fur Kunst und Industrie 1922 through 1922
 

Publications (1)

Austellung von Glasern des Klassizismus, der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit (1922) pl. 39, right; BIB# 19032