Tall Archaic Vase

Tall Archaic Vase

 
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Object Name: 
Vase in Metal Stand
Title: 
Tall Archaic Vase
Series: 
Archaic Vessels
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
1989
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
H: 26.2 cm, L(incl. handles): 32.5 cm; (A) H: 24.5 cm, D: 25.5 cm
Accession Number: 
92.4.144
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass, Inc. Design Department
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless lead glass, bronze; blown, fabricated metal stand. Deep conical vessel with slightly-flared fire-polished rim, body gradually stepped in three sections descending in height towards softly pointed base; no pontil; vessel rests at mid-section within circular four-legged support (formed of solid "rod" framework with joints wrapped in criss-crossed wire, two long handles on opposite sides arching back upon themselves forming open-ended loops, legs and handle ends have flattend "feet"); inscribed on outside of glass at resting point of mount top edge: "NO-ONE (in script) Michael Graves '89".
Provenance
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Steuben at Home (1992) pp. 100-101;

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