Large Bowl

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Object Name: 
Large Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Sweden
Accession Number: 
79.3.44
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.7 cm; Rim Diam: 35 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Credit Line: 
Gift of Kosta Boda AB
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent light green, pink lead (?) glasses; blown, overlaid, probably sandblasted (possibly acid-etched). Straight-sided, slightly tapered, cylindrical form, of colorless glass with interior casing of pink at the top shading to green at the bottom; decoration of frogs amid leaves on the interior and leaves on the exterior in low relief; flat bottom; inscribed (abraded script) "Kosta P. Hoff 78-6 Limited Edition 1/100"; polished concave pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Kosta Boda AB, Source
1979
Color: 
Colorless, ligth green, pink
colorless
Technique: 
blown, overlaid, prob. sandblasted

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 22 (1980) illustrated, p. 102, #60; BIB# AI98082
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1979 (1980) illustrated, pp. 7, 16, top; BIB# AI97143