Bottle-Shaped Vase with Abstract Decoration

Object Name: 
Bottle-Shaped Vase with Abstract Decoration

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Object Name: 
Bottle-Shaped Vase with Abstract Decoration
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Accession Number: 
99.3.41
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 37.5 cm, Diam (max): 33.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1965
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Steinberg Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, enamel; mold-blown, enameled. Almost spherical body with flat base and cylindrical neck, flat rim. Decoration on body of various shades of blue with areas of red, yellow.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steinberg Foundation, Source
1999-12-29
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
blue
red
yellow
Technique: 
mold-blowing
enameling
Material: 
glass
enamel
Inscription: 
SF 99
Label
: 
Neck
KOPECKÝ 65
Signature and date
: 
Bottom of base
Copyright: 
© Vladimir Kopecky

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978
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

Publications (8)

Czech Glass 1945-1980 Design in an Age of Adversity (Journal of Antiques and Collectibles) (June 2005) illustrated, p. 46; BIB# AI65719
Design: The Definitive Visual History (2015) illustrated, pp. 288, 381; BIB# 144271
Breaking the Mold (2005-06) illustrated
Mid 20th Century Glass in Czechoslovakia: Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) illustrated, p. 73;
Czech Glass 1945-1980: Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) illustrated, p. 215, #130; pp. 6-7; p. 126; BIB# 87054
Displaying the Marvels of Glassmaking at the Corning Museum of Glass (2005) pp. 38-40; BIB# AI66461
Behind The Iron Curtain: Czech Glass of the 1950s and 1960s (2003) illustrated, p. 42; BIB# AI55674
Glasrevue ('67/1) (1967) p. 5;