Enameled Vase

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Object Name: 
Enameled Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
73.4.45
Dimensions: 
H: 24.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1870-1876
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Marion Pike
Primary Description: 
Opaque white, lead glass; blown, enameled. Oval shape, flaring rim, narrower neck, bulbous lower body; matte surface with three narrow enameled black lines below rim and a bouquet of white roses on a black ground at one side; round base with ground pontil.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Pike, Marion, Source
Leighton, John H., Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
opaque white glass
black
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

New England Glass Company, 1818-1888
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 1963 through 1963

Publications (3)

Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 104-106, #117; BIB# 34475
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 349, left; BIB# 22048
The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888 (1963) p. 64, #39; BIB# 27488