Bottle with Stopper

Object Name: 
Bottle with Stopper

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Object Name: 
Bottle with Stopper
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
61.3.347
Dimensions: 
(a,b) H: 48 cm; (a) H: 42.2 cm, D: 12.2 cm; (b) D: 8.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1958
Credit Line: 
Gift of Fratelli Toso
Primary Description: 
Transparent blue, colorless; blown, tooled, rim of bottle ground and polished. (a) Bottle: blue; rim plain, cracked off, and ground and polished; tall, narrow cylindrical neck which widens toward bottom; pear-shaped body with three equidistant conical indentations at greatest diameter; plain base, with deep conical kick; no pontil mark. (b) Stopper: blue and colorless; blue spheroid knop, hollow, with slight protrusion at top; colorless solid stem which tapers at top, has narrow "waist" and splays at bottom; broad, very thin blue merese; bottom is long, narrow, solid, colorless rod.
Provenance: 
Fratelli Toso, Source
1961-07-10
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1959 through 1959
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) illustrated, p. 211, pl. 174; BIB# 27614