Reversible Chalice

Reversible Chalice

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Object Name: 
Reversible Chalice
Series: 
Echoes
Pattern Name: 
Blenko design #583
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States, WV, Milton
Date: 
1958
Dimensions: 
Overall H (max): 49.5 cm; Top Diam (max): 15.8 cm
Accession Number: 
2002.4.129
Credit Line: 
Gift of Robert F. Nelson and Damon Crain
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Orange and red transparent glass; blown, tooled, assembled, ground. Wide conical base narrows to circular mid section, opens to wide flared rim.
Inscription
Blenko
Stamp
:
Acid stamped Along outside bottom Acid stamp on along outside bottom "Blenko" with hand symbol and copyright symbol
Provenance
Crain, Damon, Source
2002
Nelson, Robert F., Source
2002
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-09-22 through 2004-03-01
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2004-06-17 through 2004-10-03
Corning glass museum goes back to the '50s (2003-09-08) illustrated, p. 6A (right);
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2002 (2003) illustrated, p. 38;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, p. 221, fig. 42; left;
American Beauty (2003) illustrated, Cover;
The Gather (2003) illustrated, p. 4;

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