Lithyalin Vase

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Object Name: 
Lithyalin Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Bohemia, Novy Bor (Haida)
Accession Number: 
66.3.20
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 30.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7.3 cm; Base Diam: 10.16 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830
Primary Description: 
Marbled green, yellow-green, brown, and greyish-purple non-lead glasses; blown, cut, stained. Large ovoid shape; cut hollow panels running from the neck to the foot; greyish-purple glass inside, marbled green, yellow-green and brown surface on the exterior; polished, flat rim; slightly flared, tubular neck; ovoid body; flared, circular foot with rounded rim; polished, flat rim with polished concave pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Lipkowitz, Freda, Source
Category: 
19th Century European
Color: 
green
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
staining
Material: 
glass
stain

Exhibitions (1)

The Tradition of the Avant-Garde: Bohemian Glass 1820-1935
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-05-19 through 2005-10-30

Publications (7)

Create Jewelry Glass (2009) illustrated, p. 87; BIB# 108860
Five Thousand Years of Glass (Rev ed.) (2004) illustrated, p. 191, #245; BIB# 98761
Five Thousand Years of Glass (British Museum Press, Revised) (1999) illustrated, p. 191, #245; BIB# 65713
Five Thousand Years of Glass (Paperback) (1995) illustrated, p. 191, #245; BIB# 27096
Glass, 5000 Years (1991) illustrated, p. 191, #245; BIB# 33963
Five Thousand Years of Glass (British Museum Press) (1991) illustrated, p. 191, #245; BIB# 34319
Cinquemila anni di vetro (1991) illustrated, p. 191, #245; BIB# 35145