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Vase with Two Female Figures

Vase with Two Female Figures

 
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Object Name: 
Vase with Two Female Figures
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Date: 
1958
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.2 cm, Diam: 13.8 cm
Accession Number: 
62.3.131
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless glass; molded, engraved and abraded. Rim slightly outsplayed with flat surface; wall almost straight but with slightly convex profile, tapering toward bottom; flat bottom; engraved and abraded decoration, partly in low relief, on one side of wall: two females, naked, sitting facing each other but with faces and torsos turned toward viewer; figure on left holds flower-like object in right hand while raising left hand as if to shield it; figure on right raises right hand to shield flower and reaches toward first figure with left hand. Figures are "silhouetted" by narrow band of abrasion which appears cloudy.
Provenance
Skloexport, Liberec, Former Collection to 1962
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1959 through 1959
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
 
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-06-15 through 2005-11-27
Changing Exhibition Gallery
Modern Bohemian Glass (1963) #227; BIB# 19108
Skola Josefa Kaplickeho (1960) illustrated, p. 78, fig. 196;
Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass (1959) illustrated, p. 60, pl. 26; BIB# 27614
Reflexions sur l'esthetique du verre (1958) illustrated, p. 5;

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