Tazza Bowl with Portrait of Isaac Newton

Tazza Bowl with Portrait of Isaac Newton

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Object Name: 
Tazza Bowl with Portrait of Isaac Newton
Department
European
Place Made: 
England, Wordsley
Date: 
1878
Technique
AAT
carving
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 23.5 cm
Accession Number: 
92.2.13
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Juliette K. Rakow; from The Cameo Glass Collection of Leonard S. Rakow and Juliette K. Rakow
Location: 
On Display
Description
Transparent cobalt blue galss with opaque white overlay. Portrait of Isaac Newton representing "Science" in the Science, Art, and Literature Series.
Inscription
J.Northwood, 1878
Signature and date
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Provenance
Rakow Estate, Juliette K. (Mrs. Leonard S.) ((d. 1992)), Source
1992-08-25
English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1994) illustrated, pp. 7, 23, 60, fig. 17; BIB# 35913
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1992 (1993) illustrated, p. 4, left;
Important Acquisitions from the Rakow Collection (1993) illustrated, p. 139, #3, left;
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982) illustrated, p. 60, left, p. 109, #39; BIB# 30609

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