"Flair"

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Object Name: 
3 "Flair" Waisted Tumblers
Title: 
"Flair"
Accession Number: 
90.4.11
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
designed in 1949
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; probably machine blown into mold, possibly pressed. Three heavy graduated tumblers, with exterior molded pitted or "seed" surface; wide lipless fire-polished rim; body tapers inward, waisted near the thick, slightly concave base, with rim ground flat; no pontil.
Provenance: 
Tara Robinson Glass, Source
1990-03-02
Design Since 1945
Venue(s)
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1983-10-16 through 1984-01-08
Recent Important Acquisitions, 33 (1991) illustrated, p. 109, #38; BIB# AI27386