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Object Name: 
Cake Plate
Title: 
Free
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, West Nyack
Accession Number: 
51.4.527
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 32.25 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1951
Primary Description: 
Cake Plate. Hand made clear glass with enamel fired decoration in yellow and brown; swirled ribs radiating from center concentric circles and chasing square dots. Kiln formed glass with powdered glass enamels.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Heaton, Maurice (American, b. Switzerland, 1900-1990), Source
1951-02-19
Color: 
colorless
yellow
brown
Technique: 
enameling
Kilnforming
Material: 
glass
enamel

Exhibitions (2)

The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15
Ceramics Show
Venue(s)
Syracuse University 1947 through 1947
 

Publications (1)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 38; BIB# 32803