Flying Flamingo Goblet

Flying Flamingo Goblet

 
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Object Name: 
Goblet, Champagne
Title: 
Flying Flamingo Goblet
Series: 
Flamingo Vessels
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
1975
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
H: 25 cm, D(bowl): 7.4 cm, L(bird): 9.7 cm, W(wing): 8.6 cm
Accession Number: 
93.4.79
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless non-lead, soda-lime bottle glass (iron and manganese create tint), with brownish tint; blown, hot-worked. Tall narrow goblet with elongated, optic-ribbed, modified bucket bowl with fire polished rim extended to form irregular fluted hollow stem tapering towards foot; two small asymmetrical looped handles drawn from bits applied to base of bowl then attached to stem, below handles are three narrow ring wraps then a spiral wrap that extends to foot, at lower third of stem tooled bits have been applied in form of a flying bird in four pats: long outstretched neck with hooked beak, two wings extending at right angles from stem, fanned tail; applied slightly conical "clapper" foot; rough pontil; inscribed in script on top of foot: "Fritz Dreisbach/ Pilchuk-75; rectangular white paper label on underside of foot: (red ink) 690.04WEG/(in pencil 1975".
Provenance
Dreisbach, Ruthana Balch, Former Collection
Dreisbach, Fritz ((American, b. 1941)), Source
1993-10-22

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