Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably PA, Tarentown
Accession Number: 
54.4.73
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.4 cm; Rim Diam: 20 cm; Base Diam: 12.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1900-1954
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Ellen D. Sharpe
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Translucent and opaque white, pink and lilac "marble" glass; pressed; flanged foot, short concave stem supporting a disk and the bowl with curved bottom, straight walls and slightly flaring rim; on body-outside a frieze of elongated vertical diamonds between dots.

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Pattern Name: 
Dart Bar
Provenance: 
Sharpe, Ellen D., Source
1954-06-01
Color: 
opaque white glass
pink
lilac
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 313, #1218; BIB# 30457