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Primary Description:
Beaker with a View of Meissen. Colorless glass; free-blown, stained and painted in transparent enamels. Cylindrical form, beveled rim, flat smooth base; yellow (silver) stain on beveled rim; vintage circlet -- purple grapes and green leaves -- at top; rectangular vignette depicting a view of Meissen; at center below vignette, "Meisen" in script and at right "S. Mohn fec."
Exhibitions (1)

The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
IBM Gallery 1989-12-12 through 1990-02-02
National Gallery of Art 1990-12-09 through 1991-04-14
Decorative and utilitarian works from the Corning Museum of Glass, surveying 35 centuries of glass-making technology and stylistic developments from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Islamic, and Asian cultures to contemporary American and European examples.
The works were selected by Corning Museum staff members Dwight P. Lanmon, director and curator of European glass; David B. Whitehouse, curator of ancient and Islamic glass; Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American glass; and Susanne K. Frantz, curator of 20th-century glass.
Publications (18)
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002)
illustrated, p. 47;
BIB# 74885
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 89;
BIB# 68214
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 39;
BIB# 63967
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 172-173, pl. 78;
BIB# 33819
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
illustrated, pp. 172-173, pl. 78;
BIB# 20953
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974)
illustrated, p. 75, #97;
BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965)
illustrated, p. 90, #114;
BIB# 27582
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958)
illustrated, p. 88, #104;
BIB# 27746
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955)
p. 49, #51;
BIB# 28450