Vase

Vase

 
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Object Name: 
Vase
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Italy
Date: 
about 1955
Color
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colorless
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aqua
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red
Technique
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ground glass
Dimensions: 
H: 25.4 cm, W: 13.4 cm
Accession Number: 
85.3.5
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless with transparent aqua, red and opaque orange non-lead glasses; blown with applications, ground, polished. Flattened vertical shape with rounded corners and small lipless opening in thickened top; thinly blown straight walls with a wide aqua band on one broad side and opposite side with staggered design of seven applied vertical rectangles in transparent red, the rectangles have single opaque orange crosspieces and one has double crosspieces; thick base ground flat and polished; signed on base "PAULY/A. Barbini".
Provenance
Klein, Dan, Former Collection
Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, Source
1985-01-02
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1987-05-16 through 1987-10-25
Toledo Museum of Art 1988-01-10 through 1988-02-21
Glass Since 1945. The Dan Klein Collection (1984-11-29) lot #55;

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