Echoes

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Echoes
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, WV, Milton
Accession Number: 
2002.4.129
Dimensions: 
Overall H (max): 49.5 cm; Top Diam (max): 15.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1958
Credit Line: 
Gift of Robert F. Nelson and Damon Crain
Primary Description: 
Vase, "Echoes". Orange and red transparent glass; blown, tooled, assembled, ground. Wide conical base narrows to circular mid section, opens to wide flared rim. Blenko design #583 in "Tangerine".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Design: 
#583
Provenance: 
Crain, Damon, Source
2002
Nelson, Robert F., Source
2002
Inscription: 
Blenko
Stamp
: 
Sand-blasted Along outside bottom Acid stamp on along outside bottom "Blenko" with hand symbol and copyright symbol

Exhibitions (1)

Decades in Glass: The 50's
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-09-22 through 2004-03-01
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2004-06-17 through 2004-10-03

Publications (5)

Corning glass museum goes back to the '50s (2003-09-08) illustrated, p. 6A (right);
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2002 (2003) illustrated, p. 38; BIB# AI93609
Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, p. 221, fig. 42; left; BIB# AI59133
American Beauty (2003) illustrated, Cover; BIB# AI58113
The Gather (2003) illustrated, p. 4;