Covered Punch Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Punch Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
possibly France
possibly United States
Accession Number: 
93.4.25
Dimensions: 
(a,b) H: 47 cm; (a) H: 39.2 cm, D: 30 cm; (b) D: 32.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1850-1870
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, engraved. (a) Hemispherical bowl, finely engraved with floral swags with intersect with a ground ribbon like band looping around bowl below edge, applied hollow straight stem; applied flat circular foot with polished pontil mark and floral spray engraved underneath. (b) Matching iverted conical lid has folded rim and is engraved with matching ribbon and floral swags, mushroom-shaped knob cut into hexagonal shape with flat top engraved with a flower.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Green, Arthur, Source
1993-06-15
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 36 (1994) illustrated, pp. 112-113, #17; BIB# AI33896
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1993 (1994) p. 9; BIB# AI95182