Plate in "Grecian" Pattern

Object Name: 
Plate in "Grecian" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Plate in "Grecian" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
2003.4.26
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 2.3 cm, Diam (max): 23.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1887-1900
Credit Line: 
Purchased with funds from the Estelle Sinclaire Bequest
Primary Description: 
Plate in "Grecian" Pattern. Circular plate, blown of colorless glass with a very thin layer of greenish/aquamarine glass on the top surface. The pattern is cut through the colorless layer so that it appears that the whole piece is colored. The pattern has a plain edge, an overall pattern of rosettes and diamonds with ten colorless ovals cut and polished and standing up from the overall cut surface.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Grecian
Provenance: 
From the Cutter's Wheel, Former Collection
2003-03-25
Category: 
Crystal City
Color: 
aqua
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
cutting
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (7)

Glass: A Short History (Smithsonian Books edition) (2012) illustrated, pp. 98-99; BIB# 130360
Glass: A Short History (The British Museum edition) (2012) illustrated, pp. 98-99; BIB# 135965
Arts Watch (2006-04-13) illustrated
Splitting the Rainbow: Cut Glass in Color -- Corning Museum -- Corning, New York (2006-04) illustrated, p. 76 (right); BIB# AI67941
The Gather (2006) illustrated, p. 5;
Recent Important Acquisitions Made by Public and Private Collections in the United States and Abroad (2004) illustrated, p. 221, #19; BIB# AI69240
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2003 (2004) illustrated, p. 2; BIB# AI93746