Blue Lace

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Object Name: 
Bottle
Title: 
Blue Lace
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, CA, Santa Barbara
Accession Number: 
85.4.49
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28.3 cm, Diam (max): 5.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1965
Credit Line: 
Gift of Elsie Burton
Primary Description: 
Bottle, "Blue Lace". Colorless, opalescent and blue glasses; flameworked. Body formed in three bulbous sections, cigar shape neck, tooled rim, trailed foot; marked in base: "J".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Burton, Elsie, Source
Color: 
colorless
opalescence
blue
Technique: 
Flameworked
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Decades in Glass: The 60's
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-11-17 through 2006-04-02
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2006-07-12 through 2007-01-06

Publications (6)

Il Vetro a Lume = Lampworking (2018) illustrated, v. 3, p. 207 (fig. 513a);
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American art and design (2011) illustrated, p. 248 fig. 12.2; BIB# 124232
Arte de vidriocontemporaneo usando el soplete (2006) illustrated, p. 32;
Contemporary Flameworked Glass (1997) p. 8, ill. center; BIB# 58954
Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame (1997) illustrated, p. 11;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 28 (1986) illustrated, p. 114, #54, center; BIB# AI17497