Bottle with Stopper

Bottle with Stopper

 
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Object Name: 
Bottle with Stopper
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Italy
Date: 
1958
Technique
AAT
tooling
Dimensions: 
(a,b) H: 38 cm; (a) H: 30.2 cm, D: 14.7 cm; (b) D: 8.4 cm
Accession Number: 
61.3.296
Credit Line: 
Gift of Fratelli Toso
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Transparent olive green, colorless; blown, tooled, rim of bottle ground and polished. (a) Bottle: olive green; rim plain, cracked off, and ground and polished; tall, narrow cylindrical neck which widens toward bottom; spheroid body with four equidistant conical indentations at greatest diameter; plain base, with deep conical kick; no pontil mark. (b) Stopper: olive green and colorless; olive green spheroid knop, hollow, with slight protrusion at top; colorless solid stem which tapers at top, has narrow "waist" and splays at bottom; broad, very thin olive green merese; bottom is long, narrow, solid, colorless rod.
Provenance
Toso, Fratelli, Source
1961-07-10
Murano Glass in the Twentieth Century
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 1983 through 1983
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1959 through 1959
 
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) illustrated, p. 212, pl. 175; BIB# 27614

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