Hanging Lamp

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Object Name: 
Hanging Lamp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France
Accession Number: 
78.3.17
Dimensions: 
H: 32.4 cm, D (max.): 24 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1860-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Appleton
Primary Description: 
Colorless and transparent greenish-yellow glass, gilding and opaque enamels; blown, with applied handles and gilded and enameled decoration; plain rim, straight tapering neck, biconical body with low carination, and splayed pedestal base; six vertical handles attached to upper part of body; interior of neck, body and foot covered with transparent greenish-yellow stain; outside decorated in nine horizontal zones with red borders, each separated from next by plain narrow band.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Appleton, Arthur, Source
Appleton, Mrs. Arthur, Source
Color: 
Colorless, green-yellow stain
colorless
Technique: 
blown; applied handles;gilded, enameled decoration
gilding

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 21 (1979) illustrated, p. 124, #27, right; BIB# AI98081
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1978 (1979) p. 5; BIB# AI97144