Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
74.3.28
Dimensions: 
H: 25.1 cm, W: 16.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1900-1974
Primary Description: 
Translucent nickel brown glass with opaque red and white random vertical canes; blown. Fire polished top rim; ground mouth opening swells to shoulder and curvilinearly tapers to small ground and polished base area; main body area flattened to designate front and back sides; rough pontil; no manufacturer's mark or label.

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Teochita, Inc., Source
1902-74-05
Color: 
Translucent, nickel brown
translucency
Technique: 
blown, fire-polished

Exhibitions (1)

Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 1983 through 1983

Publications (1)

Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century (1983) #34; BIB# 22192