Double-ended cordial with rope twist stem with dainty doodles

Double-ended cordial with rope twist stem with dainty doodles

 
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Object Name: 
Goblet, Reversible
Title: 
Double-ended cordial with rope twist stem with dainty doodles
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
1982
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
H: 18.7 cm, D(max): 7.5 cm
Accession Number: 
93.4.80
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Dale Alson Dreisbach
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless non-lead, barium zinc glass; blown, hot-worked. Double-ended goblet with swirled optic molding on waisted bell- and bucket-shaped bowls, both with fire-polished rims; each bowl attached by a patty to narrow solid rope-twist stem; at end of stem nearest bell-shaped bowl are two small asymmetrical double-looped handles drawn from bits, each handle has a small additional bit added to lower loop and pulled out to form a short point; rough pontil inside bucket bowl; inscribed in script at middle of waisted bowl: "Fritz Dreisbach/ Penland '82; rectangular white paper label on underside of foot: (red ink) 690.05WEG/(in pencil) 1982".
Provenance
Dreisbach, Ruthana Balch, Source

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