Eugeneo Vase

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Object Name: 
Eugeneo Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
54.3.138
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20 cm, Diam (max): 18.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1950
Credit Line: 
Gift of Ercole Barovier
Primary Description: 
Translucent cloudy thick light bluish-grey glass with many bubbles and small incorporated dark spots; slight peacock iridescence; free-blown. Scalloped ring foot with ground base, flat unevenly-shaped body with saddle rim which is drawn out downwards to form two slender vertical handles; on base: "Ercole Barovier 1950".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Barovier, Ercole (Italian, 1889-1974), Source
1954
Color: 
Translucent light bluish-grey
Technique: 
blown

Exhibitions (2)

Decades in Glass: The 50's
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-09-22 through 2004-03-01
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2004-06-17 through 2004-10-03
Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 1983 through 1983
 

Publications (1)

Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century (1983) [16] p.; BIB# 22192