Large Bowl

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Object Name: 
Large Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
61.3.277
Dimensions: 
D: 52.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1958
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent pale grey-blue, amethyst non-lead glasses; blown. Very large, heavy half-ovoid shape, with ground and polished rim; walls blend from blue-gray at top, to heavy base containing narrow band of amethyst, then thick layer of colorless with amber cast; oval base ground and polished flat; inscribed in script on base; "Seguso/Flavio Poli".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Seguso Vetri d'Arte Glassworks, Source
1961-10-11
Color: 
Colorless, grey-blue, amethyst
colorless
Technique: 
blown

Exhibitions (1)

Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1959 through 1959

Publications (1)

Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) illustrated, p. 218, pl. 182; BIB# 27614