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Ruba Rombic

 
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Object Name: 
Decanter with 6 Glasses and Tray
Title: 
Ruba Rombic
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States, PA
Date: 
designed in 1928-1932
Color
AAT
topaz
Technique
Material
AAT
glass
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Accession Number: 
92.4.121
Location: 
See Individual Records
Description
Decanter with 6 Glasses and Tray. Transparent smoke topaz glass; mold-blown.Ab: silver (?) applied to some facets. Glasses: cylindrical shape with assymetrically faceted body. Tray: bascially ovoid shape with assymetrical facets (of different sizes and shapes) on side and bottom. Decanter: flatten almost spherical shape with short cylindrical neck, body design made up of assymetric facets of different sizes and shapes- stopper: made up of assymetric facets of different sizes and shapes, some facet faces silvered (?).
Provenance
Moderne Gallery, Source to 1992-10-30
Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945
Venue(s)
American Craft Museum 1995-10-19 through 1996-02-26
Seeing Through Modernism (2009-01) illustrated, p. 131;
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 76-77, #128; BIB# 65446
Ruba Rombic by Consolidated, Kopp and Muncie (1996) p. 12;
Forum Exhibits: American Craft Museum (1995-09) p. 49, ill.;
Collector's Corner (1993-10-22) p. 23, ill.;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 35 (1993) illustrated, p. 129;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1992 (1993) illustrated, pp. 11, 18;
 
 
 
 

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