Vase with Knobs

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Object Name: 
Vase with Knobs
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Paris
Accession Number: 
2003.3.42
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.3 cm, Diam (max): 12.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1935
Web Description: 
The Salas were widely known for the vases they made of a bubbly lead glass called malfin, or unrefined, which they blew in their studio in Montparnasse. From about 1925 on, Jean Sala made his own work in addition to helping his father, and he continued to blow glass into the 1950s.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Galerie Martel-Greiner, Former Collection
2003-05-23
Sala, Bernard, Former Collection
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
translucent dark purple
Technique: 
blown, with applied decoration
Inscription: 
Jean Sala
Signature
: 
Engraved On bottom over bruises.

Description

Primary Description: 
Translucent dark purple glass, heavily bubbled. Blown, applied. Slightly flaring cylindrical shape vase with three rows of applied knobs along the bottom.

Publications (5)

Els Sala, senyors del foc (2011) illustrated, p. 46; BIB# 127363
Recent Important Acquisitions (2004) illustrated, p. 92; BIB# AI63129
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2003 (2004) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# AI93746
Recent Acquisitions (2004) illustrated, p. 5; BIB# AI62237
Les Sala: Une famille a redecouvrir (2003) p. 13;