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Primary Description:
Ruby and opaque ivory white, lead glass; blown, overlaid, carved, etched, enameled, gilded. Gourd shape, with curved neck and double bulbous sides; ruby glass overlaid with opaque white, opaque white relief-carved (cameo-carved) and enameled to create a realistic design of overlapping tan branches at the neck and base, with the sides between covered by a continuous vine with pale greenish and bluish leaves and orange-yellow gourds; three small blue and tan dragonflies on one side, amid the gourds; ruby background covered with gilded dots; pontil ground.
Exhibitions (2)

Louis C. Tiffany, Master of Modern Art Glass
Venue(s)
Musee du Luxembourg 2009-09-16 through 2010-01-17
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal 2010-02-11 through 2010-05-02
Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia 2010-06-05 through 2010-08-15

Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1982-05-01 through 1982-10-31
Cameo glass, one of the most costly and difficult decorating techniques since first century B.C., is documented and illustrated in this catalog. Included are examples from Rome, Islam, and China, as well as English 19th-century masterpieces by John Northwood and George Woodall among others.
For the purposes of this catalog, the term “cameo glass” is used to refer to cased glass objects with two or more differently colored layers. The outer layer is usually an opaque or opalescent white, and the outer layer or layers have been carved in to leave the decoration standing in relief against a body of contrasting color. Shading is produced by thinning down the carved layer; highlights are created where the glass is left thickest.
Both this catalog, and the exhibition for which it was created, documents the 2000-year cameo glass tradition.
Publications (13)
Oriental Influences on Victorian Glass (2010-3)
illustrated, p. 4;
Layers of Wonder: Majestic and Marvelous Cameo Glass (2003-05)
illustrated, inset between pp. 40-41;
English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1994)
illustrated, pp. 36-37, 61, fig. 31;
BIB# 35913
The many facets of Victorian glass (1993-10)
p. 118;
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982)
illustrated, pp. 81, left; 116-117, #78;
BIB# 30609
Important Nineteenth Century English Cameo Glass and Fine French Paperweights (1970-10-26)
p. 13 no. 40 and frontispiece;
BIB# 12905
Cameo Glass (1936-09)
pp. 109-112, fig. 9;
The Editor's Attic: A Nineteenth-Century Masterpiece in Cameo Glass (Antiques, v. 28) (1935-07)
pp. 6, 7, ill.;