Covered Container

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Object Name: 
Covered Container
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
87.6.23
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1974
Credit Line: 
Gift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.
Primary Description: 
Colorless cased in opaque aqua, opaque aqua and cobalt, non-lead glasses, gold leaf; blown, hot worked. Multi-layered jar of colorless cased in opaque aqua, then colorless, then aqua and cobalt; wide flaring, flat rim with cobalt lip wrap; inscribed on underside of rim: "T. Iwata 1974"; sharply collared, squat, slightly tapered body decorated with cobalt blending to aqua decorated with folded strips of gold leaf; base ground and polished flat, polished pontil; paper label on base: "TR-527"; disc lid of colorless with overall minute speckling of blue and brown, colorless knop with gold leaf applied with colorless patty, ground and polished pontil.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Iwata Glass Co., Ltd., Source
1987-11-18
Color: 
Colorless, aqua, cobalt
colorless
aqua
Technique: 
Blown, Hot Worked
Inscription: 
TR-527
label
: 
base paper label
T. Iwata 1974
signature
: 
Inscribed underside of rim

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382