Tall Asymmetrical Vase

Object Name: 
Tall Asymmetrical Vase

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Object Name: 
Tall Asymmetrical Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Paris
Accession Number: 
84.3.220
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28 cm, Diam: 18.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1945
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mme. Andre Thuret
Web Description: 
Thuret, an industrial glass engineer, was fascinated by the glass of Maurice Marinot. Thuret worked alone, like Marinot, and he received a diploma of honor for the work that he first exhibited in Paris at the 1925 “Exposition des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes.”

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Thuret, Andre (French, 1898-1965), Source
1984
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, layered

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, encasing three vertical sections of yellow and gold flecks, three-sided form, rounded base; signed on base "andre/thuret".

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 27 (1985) illustrated, p. 108, #38, second from left; BIB# AI15253
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) illustrated, pp. 6-7; BIB# AI96385