Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
United States, probably New England
Accession Number: 
55.4.102
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.5 cm; Rim Diam: 17 cm; Base Diam: 7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1790-1810
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Transparent light olive-green glass with few large and minute bubbles; wear marks at interior and base; free blown, with applied decoration; deep bowl curving to flattened bottom with applied ring base, rough pontil mark at bottom; narrow band of applied threading at rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Gribbel, W. Griffith, Former Collection
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
olive green
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
applied

Exhibitions (1)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Publications (6)

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 98, #91; BIB# 35679
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 10, 91, pl. 9; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 43, #8; BIB# 34475
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 4, #3, p. 52; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 4, #3, p. 52; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 4, #3, p. 52; BIB# 76944