Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Accession Number: 
61.3.278
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.4 cm; Rim Diam (max): 7.65 cm; Rim Diam (min): 4.75 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1958
Primary Description: 
Blue-green glass cased with transparent light gray-amethyst glass; blown. Arched elliptical mouth opening; flattened inverted conical body with frong and back; ground and polished elliptical base and circular pontil mark; scratch engraved/signed on base: "Seguso Murano/Flavio Poli".
Provenance: 
Seguso Vetri d'Arte Glassworks, Source
1961-10-11
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-09-22 through 2004-03-01
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2004-06-17 through 2004-10-03
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1959 through 1959
 
Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century (1983) [16] p.; BIB# 22192
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) illustrated, p. 219, pl. 183; BIB# 27614