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2 Japanesque Vases

Japanesque Vase
 
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Object Name: 
2 Japanesque Vases
Department
European
Place Made: 
France
Date: 
about 1880
Color
AAT
white
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green
Technique
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blown glass
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enameling
Material
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enamel
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glasses
Dimensions: 
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Accession Number: 
2012.3.3
Location: 
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Description
(A) Opalescent white glass with graduated green outer glaze, enamel; blown, hot-worked, enameled. Ovoid vase with dome foot and straight-walled neck widening toward rim. Exterior of vessel hand-painted in Japanesque or Aesthetic style with two red-breasted birds perched on a dogwood branch silhouetted against overlapping moons. (B) Opalescent white glass with graduated green outer glaze, enamel; blown, hot-worked, enameled. Ovoid vase with dome foot and straight-walled neck widening toward rim. Exterior of vessel hand-painted in Japanesque or Aesthetic style with two blue birds with yellow breasts perched on a dogwood branch silhouetted against overlapping moons.
Provenance
Associated Artists LLC, Source to 2012-02-15
 

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