Rocking Globe

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Object Name: 
Globe
Title: 
Rocking Globe
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
84.2.14
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.7 cm, Diam: 17.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1983
Primary Description: 
Colorless, multicolored glass; blown, stained or enameled, cut, possibly engraved. Truncated spherical shape; flat polished rim; rim made by cutting into spherical form at two different angles and forming a broad figure "8" shape; three flat disk or partial disk shapes polished into sides; lower half decorated with a stylized landscape of patchwork stripes and circles in pastel shades including pinks, greens, and blues; upper portion with Matte, possibly acid polished surface; signed on side just above lower colored area "Pauline Solve RH 1983"; no pontil area on base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Coleridge of Highgate, Former Collection
1984-04-06
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, multicolored
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Stained or Enameled, Cut, Polished, [Engraved]
polishing
cut glass
Inscription: 
Pauline Solven RH 1983
Signature and date
: 
on side just above lower colored area

Publications (2)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 127; BIB# 32803
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) p. 7; BIB# AI96385