Hand Basin

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Object Name: 
Hand Basin
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Saratoga
Accession Number: 
50.4.447 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H (max): 16.75 cm; Rim Diam: 28.25 cm; Foot Diam: 11.25 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1844-1860
Primary Description: 
Hand Basin. Green or bottle glass, brilliant aquamarine; free-blown with applied and tooled decoration. Bowl: deep circular form with flaring heavy outfolded rim, and applied lily-pad Type III decoration on sides; applied circular sloping foot with crimped sides and pontil mark on base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1922
to
1950-07-31
Sterns, S. M., Former Collection
1922
Color: 
aqua
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
applied decoration
applied
Material: 
green glass

Exhibitions (2)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
Venue(s)
American Art Galleries 1929-09-25 through 1929-10-09
 

Publications (9)

The encyclopedia of modern marbles, spheres & orbs (2005) illustrated, p. 22 fig. 17; BIB# 88983
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 101, #95; BIB# 35679
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 12, 91, pl. 13; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 44-45, #12; BIB# 34475
Glass-Nost: Corning and Russian Museum Set Cultural Exchange (1989) illustrated, p. 92;
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, pl. 25, p. 170; p. 120 ff.; p. 37 ff.; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) illustrated, pl. 25; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, pl. 25; BIB# 96725
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass (1929) illustrated, #302; BIB# 28050

Objects in Set (2)

Hand Basin and Pitcher
Artist:Saratoga (Mountain) Glassworks
Date:1844-1860
Accession Number:50.4.447
Pitcher
Artist:Saratoga (Mountain) Glassworks
Date:1844-1860
Accession Number:50.4.447 B