Enameled Vessel

Enameled Vessel

 
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Object Name: 
Enameled Vessel
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
England
Date: 
about 1992
Color
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colorless
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gray
Technique
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enameling
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firing
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sandblasting
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm; Rim Diam: 9.6 cm
Accession Number: 
94.2.9
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Miller Gallery
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless glass with translucent pale amethyst, gray, and sepia glass enamels; blown in a soft sand mold, enameled, fired, sandblasted, engraved. Elongated conical vessel with interior and exterior matte finish; undulating rim decorated on exterior edge with painted serrated band (pale gray with pink details), rim flares out sharply at an angle from irregular dimpled body decorated with non-identical enameled designs consisting of loosely painted circular pink center with sepia details partially surrounded by 3/4 border of gray radiating rays (no rays along top edge of pink); overall scattered small engraved spirals and cross-hatching; mottled matte surface with whitish patches; narrow circular base ground flat, no pontil; inscribed on base: "552/Me[illegible]/Lowe".
Inscription
552 / Me [illegible] / Lowe
Inscription
:
on bottom of base
Provenance
Lowe, Liz ((English)), Former Collection
Miller Gallery, Source
1994-09-26

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