Vase with Stylized Floral Decoration

Vase with Stylized Floral Decoration

 
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Object Name: 
Vase with Stylized Floral Decoration
Department
Modern
Category
Modern
Place Made: 
Bohemia
Date: 
about 1920
Color
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colorless
Technique
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assembling
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polishing
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ground glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22 cm; Rim Diam: 17.7 cm; Foot Diam: 13.1 cm
Accession Number: 
81.3.35
Credit Line: 
Gift of Dr. Alena Adlerova and Dr. Dagmar Hejdova
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless non-lead glass; mold-blown, assembled while hot, ground, polished, enameled. Vase with delicate floral enameling; deep flared trumpet bowl, rim ground an polished flat; enamel rim decoration of black zig-zag band (upper open area filled with amethyst scallops, lower open area has half of green trefoil with yellow center in lower opening), descending from band are narrow vertical rows of linear gemetricized floral stems with orange buds, green and black stems with evenly spaced black and amethyst "buds", spaced between stems near band are small stylized florettes in two different designs, stems descend to base of bowl decorated with two scalloped bands of green outlined in black with amethyst detail; flattened knop (enameled black) connects bowl with deep hollow flared base with turned down rim decorated with same band as bowl rim; rim edge ground and polished flat, no pontil; unsigned.
Provenance
Hejdova, Dagmar, Former Collection
Adlerova, Alena, Former Collection

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