Bottle with Prunts

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Object Name: 
Carafe
Title: 
Bottle with Prunts
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
85.4.71
Dimensions: 
H: 15.3 cm, D (max.): 7.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1980
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Elsie Burton
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass with white, blue, aqua and brown colorations; flameworked, blown, tooled, hot applications. Cylindrical body with slightly elongated neck and spouted lip; slightly bulbous, semi-elongated neck joins narrow sloping shoulder that merges quickly with irregularly cylindrical shaped body; upper half of body decorated with bands in varying widths of milky white, brown, "snakethread" with aqua double-twist over white and light blue, and white with narrow blue edge; lower half of body has four large colorless bosses and at base several narrow wraps of blue; foot is formed of a single coil of colorless.
Provenance: 
Burton, Elsie, Source