Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
61.3.281
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1958
Primary Description: 
Transparent blue-green non-lead glass cased in amethyst; blown, cased, cut, polished. Sharply flattened spherical shape, crescent-shaped opening rim; base ground and polished flat; inscribed in script on base: "Seguso/Flavio Poli".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Seguso Vetri d'Arte Glassworks, Source
1961-10-11
Color: 
Transparent blue-green
Technique: 
blown, cased, cut, polished
cut glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1959 through 1959

Publications (2)

Hot Collectibles (1986-87) p. 85, ill.;
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) illustrated, p. 222, pl. 187; BIB# 27614