Bowl Cut in "Napoleon" Pattern

Object Name: 
Bowl Cut in "Napoleon" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Bowl Cut in "Napoleon" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
95.4.362
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.1 cm, Diam: 26.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1900-1910
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Norbert T. White from Mrs. Dorothy White Wehrstedt
Primary Description: 
Bowl cut in "Napoleon" Pattern. Colorless lead glass; blown, cut. Circular bowl with straight sides and flat base; cut edge of alternating large and small scallops enclosing heavily cut pattern divided into 10 sections by deep cuts radiating from central point. Each triangular section has hobstar in the side and an elaborate crosshatched pattern similar to "Russian" filling the point. Acid-stamped trefoil with two hawks and the word "HAWKES" below in center of base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Napoleon
Provenance: 
White, Gwen, Former Collection
White, Norbert, Former Collection
Wehrstedt, Dorothy White, Source
1995-11-22
Category: 
Crystal City
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
[image of trefoil with fleur-de-lis and two hawks] / HAWKES
inscription
: 
Acid stamped bottom interior of bowl

Publications (4)

Becoming the Crystal City (2018) illustrated, p. 1 (top middle); BIB# 714735
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 55, #87; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 38 (1996) illustrated, pp. 246-247, #37; BIB# AI97737
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1995 (1996) illustrated, pp. 20-21, #5; BIB# AI95180