Bowl with Geometric Decoration

Object Name: 
Bowl with Geometric Decoration

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Object Name: 
Bowl with Geometric Decoration
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Conches-en-Ouche
Accession Number: 
54.3.79
Dimensions: 
H: 9 cm; D (rim): 18.7 cm, (base): 6.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1901-1953
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Ellen D. Sharpe
Primary Description: 
Heavy translucent very bubbly colorless cloudy glass with blue and yellow tint and brownish-red streaks and speckles, surface pitted (pate-de-verre ?); cast by lost wax process, then polished with wheel and special stone. Solid cylindrical foot with ground base, applied outspreading bowl; acid-etched geometrical pattern on bowl-outside: three friezes of volutes and horizontal lines between rings; stamped at bottom: "DECORCHEMONT", diamond point engraved in base: "A76".

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Sharpe, Ellen D., Source
1954
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
lost-wax process
grinding
Material: 
glass