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Object Name: 
Bowl
Title: 
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Department
Modern
Maker(s)
Riedel, George, Maker
Riedel Glas Austria, Maker
Place Made: 
Austria
Date: 
about 1982
Color
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colorless
Technique
cast, prob.; cut, engraved
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casting
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cut glass
Dimensions: 
H: 8.4 cm, D: 38 cm
Accession Number: 
82.3.67
Credit Line: 
Gift of Professor Claus Josef Riedel
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless lead glass; probably cast, cut, engraved. Shallow bowl shape; bottom engraved with numerous pentagonal and hexagonal concave cells, the cells around the edge of the grouping with circular edges facing the rounded rim; each cell separated from the other by engraved lines; engraved above cells but below rim on one side in script "Riedel"; paper label on inside of bowl: "made in austria/RIEDEL/since 1756/Full lead- crystal/over 24% PbO/4-81".
Provenance
Riedel, Claus Josef, Source

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Recent Important Acquisitions, 25 (1983) illustrated, p. 277, #63;

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