Water Carafe

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Object Name: 
Water Carafe
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Baccarat
Accession Number: 
55.3.143 A
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Colorless, polychrome lead glass; blown, engraved, millefiori, cut. Mallet shape, with flared, panel-cut neck; rounded shoulders above spreading sides decorated with widely spaced millefiori canes, cut circular facets, engraved scrolled lengths of foliage linking the circular facets, and cut stars; rounded base; cut elaborate star on the bottom.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source
1955
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Former Collection
1955

Exhibitions (1)

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1995-06-03 through 1995-10-22

Publications (1)

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass (1995) illustrated, pp. 29-33; p. 29, Fig. 33; BIB# 26765

Objects in Set (3)

Carafe, Tumbler and Plate
Artist:Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat
Date:about 1845-1855
Accession Number:55.3.143
Plate
Artist:Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat
Date:about 1845-1855
Accession Number:55.3.143 C
 
Tumbler
Artist:Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat
Date:about 1845-1855
Accession Number:55.3.143 B