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Vase with Abstract Decoration

Vase with Abstract Decoration

 
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Object Name: 
Vase with Abstract Decoration
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Date: 
1959
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 38 cm; Base Diam: 16.1 cm
Accession Number: 
83.3.233
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless non-lead glass, opaque black and red enamel, translucent amethyst enamel; mold-blown, enameled, fired. Tall conical vase with narrow opening and flat circular rim (top surface and edge ground and polished flat); straight walls flaring towards base covered in upper half (except narrow band near opening) with background of translucent purple over lower half covered in opaque red, abstract linear design of thickly applied black enamel applied on two sides of walls from rim to base (one side of wide black lines and curves, other of narrow lines and curves); base has deep conical kick no pontil; inscribed in script on base edge: "Kopecký '59".
Provenance
Dan Klein Ltd, Former Collection to 1983
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-05-16 through 2002-10-21
National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library 2003-02-28 through 2003-09-28
Corning Incorporated Gallery
Masters of Czech Glass 1945-1965
Venue(s)
Dan Klein Ltd
 
Czech Glass 1945-1980 Design in an Age of Adversity (Journal of Antiques and Collectibles) (June 2005) illustrated, p. 47;
Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, p. 8; BIB# 109342
Tip for the Top (2005-01) illustrated, p. 21;
Design in An Age of Adversity: Postwar Glass in Czechoslovakia (2005) illustrated, pp. 86-87;
The Gather (2005) p. 4;
Czech Glass 1945-1980. Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) illustrated, p. 209, #124; p. 120; BIB# 87054
Clearly Unique: Czech glass breaks rules behind Iron Curtain (2003-02-16) illustrated, p. 1;
Behind The Iron Curtain: Czech Glass of the 1950s and 1960s (2003) illustrated, p. 43;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2001 (2002) illustrated, p. 23;
Masters of Czech Glass 1945-1965 (1983) illustrated, #31;
[Untitled : SF 366] (1959) illustrated BIB# 79522

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