Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
87.6.24
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 50.1 cm; Rim Diam: 17 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1972
Credit Line: 
Gift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent yellow, deep violet glasses; blown, manipulated while hot. Tall "flori-form" shape with flared trumpet rim in yellow, color extends to upper one-third of narrow, twisted body then blends to striated, matte-finish colorless; narrow body base has wide, solid applied foot of violet heavily cased in colorless; ground and polished pontil; inscribed on base: "1972 T. Iwata"; paper label on base: "TR115".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Iwata Glass Co., Ltd., Source
1987-11-18
Color: 
Colorless, yellow, violet
colorless
yellow
Technique: 
blown, manipulated while hot
Inscription: 
1972 T. Iwata
inscription
: 
Inscribed base
TR115
label
: 
base paper label

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 113, #32; BIB# AI20606
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382