Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
96.3.11
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.9 cm, D(max): 9.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1976
Credit Line: 
Gift of Albin Schaedel
Primary Description: 
Transparent red, yellow, blue, colorless non-lead glasses; flamework. Bulbous footed vase with slightly flared fire-polished rim with narrow exterior edge appearing blue (possibly iridized), neck area flares into swelling body with walls comprised of red background, on opposite sides two large swirls of interlocking yellow, colorless, blue, and red, the swirls turn into broad "zig-zag" patterns connecting both swirls, walls narrow sharply then flare to form hollow foot; base is slightly concave; no pontil; in raised applied glass on the base: "S./79".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Schaedel, Albin (German, 1905-1999), Source
1996-05-20
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
red
yellow
blue
Technique: 
flamework
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
5/79
mark
: 
on base