Silveria

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Silveria
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Stourbridge
Accession Number: 
80.2.27
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.6 cm, Diam (max): 14.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1900
Primary Description: 
Colorless and multicolored glasses; blown, layered, and iridized; applied trails; metal foils. Ovoid shape with bowl shape neck and flaring rim; mottled blue glass inclusions at top shading to orange and yellow at the base; polished pontil mark on base; signed on base "S.+ W." (in script).

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Christie's, Paris, Former Collection
1980-10-07
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
Colorless, multicolored
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Inclusions, Applied
Material: 
glass
foil
Inscription: 
S. + W.
Signature
: 
Base
Copyright: 
© Stevens and Williams

Publications (3)

5000 years of glass (2012) illustrated, p. 210, #267; BIB# 133950
Recent Important Acquisitions, 23 (1981) illustrated, p. 98, #27; BIB# AI98083
English and Continental Glass (Christie's Sale) (1980-10-07) lot #1; BIB# 10041