Urn

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Object Name: 
Urn
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Brooklyn
Accession Number: 
91.4.77
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 47.2 cm; Rim Diam: 27.5 cm; Foot Diam: 16.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1856-1863
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Beers, in memory of Isabel Dorflinger
Primary Description: 
Urn. Colorless lead glass; blown, cut. Pear-shape body, turned over rim, cut ovals on rim, cut honeycomb on cylindrical sides and bulbous base of vase portion; applied solid waisted stem, applied hollow drum-shape base cut in panels around sides, applied solid circular foot with cut rays underneath.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Beers, Stephen, Source
1991-12-04
Beers, Mrs. Stephen, Source
1991-12-04
Dorflinger, Isabel, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (4)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 45, #60; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 34 (1992) illustrated, p. 139, #29; BIB# AI30154
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1991 (1992) illustrated, p. 8, second from left; BIB# AI96378
Dorflinger: America's Finest Glass, 1852-1921 (1988) p. 140, pl. 5; BIB# 32883