Vase with Butterfly

Object Name: 
Vase with Butterfly

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Object Name: 
Vase with Butterfly
Accession Number: 
83.3.236
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.5 cm; Rim Diam: 9.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1948
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, enameled, engraved. Conical shape; flat polished and beveled rim, enameled decoration in pale browns, greens, blues and pinks represents a butterfly and thistles; outlines of plants suggested by scratch engraving; flat polished base; signed on base "S. LIBENSKY/1948".
Provenance: 
Dan Klein Ltd, Former Collection
1983
Masters of Czech Glass 1945-1965
Venue(s)
Dan Klein Ltd
New Glass Review, 6 (1985) illustrated, p. 31, #101;
Masters of Czech Glass 1945-1965 (1983) #40; BIB# 30951