Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
87.6.22
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 42.3 cm; Base Diam: 13.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1974
Credit Line: 
Gift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.
Primary Description: 
Translucent red, blue-green, colorless non-lead glasses, gold leaf; blown, cut, etched, laminated. Elongated hollow hourglass shape; upper cone of red cased in colorless with matte finish, cut and polished flat rim, narrow base end cut and laminated to equal-sized cone of striated blue cased in colorless; foot is applied patty of opaque red with mottled gold leaf surface; ground and polished pontil; paper label on base: "TR - 232"; inscribed near foot: "1974. T. Iwata".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Iwata Glass Co., Ltd., Source
1987-11-18
Color: 
Red, blue-green, colorless
red
Technique: 
blown, cut, etched, laminated
etching
cut glass
Inscription: 
1974. T. Iwata
inscription
: 
Inscribed near foot
TR - 232
label
: 
base paper label

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382