Dew Drops

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Title: 
Dew Drops
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
85.4.64
Dimensions: 
H: 12.8 cm; D (rim): 5.7 cm, (foot): 4.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1981
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Elsie Burton
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass with applied transparent aqua; flame- worked, hot applications, tooled. Conical bowl with hollow waisted stem and trailed foot; colorless goblet with slightly defined tooled lip tapers into a deep bowl decorated with four horizontal rows of applied colorless spots, top and bottom rows slightly raised; base of bowl is slightly necked then continues to hollow waisted stem decorated with two raised trails of transparent aqua pincered together at regular intervals; stem also has an irregular overlaid wide wrap of colorless; foot is formed by slightly flattened coiled trails crimped at regular intervals.

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Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Burton, Elsie, Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
flameworked, hot applications, tooled