Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Place Made: 
Iran
Accession Number: 
51.1.69
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.3 cm, Diam: 12 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1700-1899
Primary Description: 
Vase. Bubbly glass, light sapphire-blue; free-blown from one gather; applied decoration; flattened spheroid body with drawn hollow circular foot and with slender cylindrical neck having very wide long conical flare to plain rim; rough pontil mark; heavy thread wound around lower neck in close spiral.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Brigham, Mrs. Harry Hillyer, Former Collection
Color: 
sapphire
Technique: 
applied decoration
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Forgeries and Reproductions of Ancient Glass in Corning (1978-10) illustrated, p. 3, fig. 4; BIB# AI7858
Forgeries and Reproductions of Ancient Glass in Corning (1977) illustrated, pp. 40-62, ill. p. 41, fig. 17; BIB# AI90923
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, p. 59, #109; BIB# 28036