Cut Bowl

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Object Name: 
Cut Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Sweden, Orrefors
Accession Number: 
90.3.35
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.9 cm, D(rim): 18.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1927
Credit Line: 
Gift in part, funds from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nassau
Primary Description: 
Colorless with smokey-gray cast lead glass; blown, cut, polished. Shallow cut bowl with ground and polished rim; narrow faceted rim band; walls cut in geometric pattern of rows of six-sided cells decreasing in size towards narrow solid faceted foot with star and cell pattern cut into base; entire surface polished; no pontil; inscribed in script on base: "of.g. A. 69.27.".

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Nassau, Paul, Source
1990-05
Nassau, Mrs. Paul, Source
1990-05
Antiques Vanhaisant, Source
1990-05
Color: 
gray
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
cutting
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 33 (1991) illustrated, p. 106, #30; BIB# AI27386
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1990 (1991) p. 6; BIB# AI96379