"Covered Urn"

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Object Name: 
Covered Urn
Title: 
"Covered Urn"
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
97.4.100
Dimensions: 
(a,b) H: 26.3 cm; (a) H; 7.3 cm, L(incl. handle): 20.3 cm, D(rim): 13.2 cm, (foot): 11.2 cm; (b) H: 9.9 cm, D: 13.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1950
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, applied, tooled, ground, polished. (a) Bucket-shaped bowl with two applied C-shaped handles on either side; applied disk and solid cylindrical stem and applied flat circular foot; ground and polished under base, ground and polished pontil mark. Signed "Steuben" in diamond-point script under base in the center. Gummed paper label with typed no. "8019". (b) Slightly domed circular lid with applied solid cylindrical finial with interior drop-shaped air bubble, rim ground and polished.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, applied, tooled, ground, polished
tooling
ground glass

Publications (1)

Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (1982 edition) (1982) p. 290, #8019; BIB# 21935