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Primary Description:
Colorless glass, green and pink enamels, probably lead glass; bronze; mold-blown and enameled glass; cast metal. Mold-blown shade with raised floral pattern, completely enameled on interior surface to color flowers in several shades of pink with a dark green background, cut edge, marked "PAT>APPLIED FOR" at lower edge and numbered "82.44a". Hollow bronze base is pyramidal with buds and poppies on each of the four sides, four upcurving arms to support circular shade holder at top and inner rod to support two-bulb electric fixture fitted with new sockets. Marked underneath "PAIRPOINT MFG. CO. 5049" with "P" in a diamond; ovoid paper label with "LACQUERED/CLEAN/ONLY WITH A/DAMP CLOTH"; numbered "4.46".
Exhibitions (1)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-05-19 through 2011-12-31
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Publications (8)
Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties (2011-07-18)
illustrated, slide 66;
BIB# 167277
Article on The Corning Museum of Glass and 2011 Exhibition: Pairpoint and Mt. Washington (2011-07)
illustrated, p. 52;
Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties (2011)
illustrated, p. 5, right;
BIB# AI88807
Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass Encomposing the History of the Mt. Washington Glass Works and Its Successors, the Pairpoint Companies Volume Two (2011)
illustrated, p. 224 fig. 19-32;
BIB# 88066
Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass 2011 (2010-12)
illustrated, p. 4;
20th century decorative works of art, including contemporary works of art. (2002-06-07)
illustrated, p. 205;
BIB# 72485