Free-form Vase with Internal Colors

Object Name: 
Free-form Vase with Internal Colors

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Object Name: 
Free-form Vase with Internal Colors
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Skrdlovice
Accession Number: 
99.3.49
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.5 cm, Diam (max): 21 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1958
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Steinberg Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent deep red, yellow glass; blown. Bulbous body tapering into cylindrical neck, high kick on base. Red neck shading to colorless at base with 4 spots of yellow near base and on kick.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
The Steinberg Foundation, Source
1999-12-29
Color: 
colorless
deep red
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
7. BLECHA @ JJC
Label
: 
neck
SF / 385
Label
: 
Shoulder
Blecha / 869 / 5
Label
: 
bottom of base
110220
Label
: 
neck
BLECHA - 1958
Signature and date
: 
Edge of base
Copyright: 
© Lubomir Blecha

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-05-16 through 2002-10-21
National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library 2003-02-28 through 2003-09-28
Corning Incorporated Gallery

Publications (1)

Czech Glass 1945-1980: Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) illustrated, p. 138, # 4; BIB# 87054