Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Somerville
Accession Number: 
97.4.238
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.6 cm; Rim Diam: 23.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1900-1925
Credit Line: 
Gift in part of Harriet Smith
Web Description: 
Julian de Cordora, of Union Glass Works, experimented with transparent colors and with Venetian style glass in the early 20th century. This yellow is a color he produced during those years.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Skinner, Inc., Source
1997-10-31
Color: 
Transparent yellow-brown (golden-yellow)
Technique: 
blown, tooled, cut
tooling

Description

Primary Description: 
Transparent yellow-brown (golden-yellow) glass; blown, tooled, cut. Circular bowl with tooled rim cut in a pattern of circles within diamonds; cut panel around base, ground and polished base.

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 46, #63; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 40 (1998) illustrated, pp. 156-157, #40; BIB# AI40492
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1997 (1998) illustrated, p. 12; BIB# AI95178