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Lamp shade

Lamp shade

 
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Object Name: 
Lamp Shade
Title: 
Lamp shade
Department
Modern
Maker(s)
Argy-Rousseau, Gabriel ((French, 1885-1953)), Maker
Place Made: 
France
Date: 
1925-1930
Color
Clear, deep purple, blue
AAT
deep purple
Technique
free-blown, overlaid, acid-etched
Accession Number: 
61.3.7
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Transparent-translucent multicolored glass; free-blown, overlaid and acid-etched. Roughly bell-shaped, with hole at top for cord; clear, overlaid with deep purple and blue (in reflected light black and orange, in transmitted light purple and blue); triangular leaf-like motifs arranged in a haphazard pattern and overlaying each other with sections of orange blossoms partly hidden by the leaves (artichoke-like); signed "G. ARGY-ROUSSEAU FRANCE".
Provenance
Moser, Leo, Source

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