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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Description
Primary Description:
Opaque pink, yellow glass; metal; blown. (a) Circular bowl- shaped base mounted on square scrolled brass foot, with brass kerosene burner and shade holder attached at top; glass shades from yellow to pink; satin finished; enameled decoration of brown fish in a gold mesh net. (b) Ovoid glassy pink/yellow glass chimney fits on burner inside shade. (c) Circular shade fits on brass mounting and is similarly decorated. Knobs are marked "MT WASHINGTON GLASS CO.".
Exhibitions (4)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-05-19 through 2011-12-31
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory 2009-01-23 through 2009-02-01
The 55th Annual Winter Antiques Show

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

American Glassmaking: The First Russian Tour
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1990-01-30 through 1990-02-24
Publications (28)
Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties (2011-07-18)
illustrated, slide 65;
BIB# 167277
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006)
illustrated, p. 18;
BIB# 96551
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 119;
BIB# 68214
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 40;
BIB# 63967
The Collector's Encyclopedia of American Art Glass (1994)
illustrated, p. 58;
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993)
p. 15;
BIB# 35660
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990)
illustrated, p. 75, #71;
BIB# 34475
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1979 (1980)
illustrated, pp. 6-7, second from left, bottom;
BIB# AI97143
Title Unknown (Sotheby's Auction Catalog) (1979-06-19)
#325;
Nineteenth Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development (Galahad Books Edition) (1967)
illustrated, p. 41;
BIB# 86244
Nineteenth Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development (London, Camden, NJ [etc] Edition) (1967)
illustrated, p. 41;
BIB# 27674
Nineteenth Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development (Nelson Edition) (1959)
illustrated, p. 43;
BIB# 25303
Multimedia (1)

Heat Sensitive Glass
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