Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
53.3.58
Dimensions: 
H: 2.5 cm, D (rim): 11.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1900-1953
Primary Description: 
Transparent "ribbon" glass with minute bubbles; surface pitted; free-blown. The walls are gently curved then straight, with short flaring rim; clear blue and amber glass ribbons are fused together in which white and yellow spiral pairs are incorporated, the rim is of clear glass with a yellow spiral pair.

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Davis, Cecil, Source
Applethwaite-Abbot, Mrs., Former Collection
Color: 
Transparent "ribbon"
Technique: 
mosaic glass or millefiori technique

Exhibitions (2)

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21
Title Unknown (Bergstrom Art Center)
Venue(s)
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum 1976-06 through 1976-06
 

Publications (4)

The illustrated encyclopedia of glass (2011) illustrated, p. 167; BIB# 128671
The Encyclopedia of Glass (2001) illustrated, p. 141; BIB# 69319
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 296-297, #906; BIB# 29547
English and continental coloured glass and French glass Paperweights... property of Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott, Part 4 (1953-06-15) #669; BIB# 12090