Vase with Abstract Decoration

Object Name: 
Vase with Abstract Decoration

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Object Name: 
Vase with Abstract Decoration
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Accession Number: 
99.3.50
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm, Diam (max): 18.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1959
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Steinberg Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, enamel; blown, enameled. Flaring cylindrical shape with decoration of wide blue band with spots of red and orange and black linear grid-like pattern.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
The Steinberg Foundation, Source
1999-12-29
Color: 
colorless
red
orange
black
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
Material: 
glass
enamel
Inscription: 
SF 403
Label
: 
Side
Elias 59
Signature and date
: 
Bottom of base
Copyright: 
© Bohumil Elias

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-05-16 through 2002-10-21
National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library 2003-02-28 through 2003-09-28
Corning Incorporated Gallery

Publications (5)

Czech Glass 1945-1980 Design in an Age of Adversity (Journal of Antiques and Collectibles) (June 2005) illustrated, p. 47; BIB# AI65719
Glass Struggle (2005-10) illustrated
Czech Glass 1945-1980: Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) p. 156, #36; BIB# 87054
Dvacet let snazeni a zapasu (1964) illustrated, p. 283, fig. 788;
Title Unknown (Tvar) (1964) p. 283;