Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Stourbridge
Accession Number: 
91.2.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.5 cm; Rim Diam: 15.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1940-1949
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, engraved. Tall, broad, slightly flared cylinder with lipless fire polished rim and flattened base; body decorated with three large stylized multi-branched engraved cacti (prickly pear, organ pipe, cholla); broadly ground and polished pontil; acid-stamped on base near edge in block letters: "Royal/Brierley/England".

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved
Inscription: 
Royal / Brierley / England
Stamp
: 
Acid-stamped on base near edge in block letters

Publications (3)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 34 (1992) illustrated, p. 144, #43; BIB# AI30154
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1991 (1992) p. 10; BIB# AI96378
British Decorative Arts from 1880 to the Present Day #4464 (1991-02-20) Lot 156; BIB# 10990