Ice Bottle

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Object Name: 
Perfume Bottle with Stopper
Title: 
Ice Bottle
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
86.4.74
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 10.8 cm, D: 8.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent pink non-lead glasses; blown with hot applications. (a) Spherical bubble of pink with narrow top round opening (abraded interior edge) has been heavily cased in colorless to provide a thick lower half which has been rolled hot in crushed colorless producing a raised surface of large granules; base has been ground flat and polished; inscribed "M. Stone 1986" on bottom of base. (b) Teardrop shaped stopper of hot-worked colorless with abraded band around mid-section.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Stone, Molly (b. 1950), Source
1986-04-21
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, transparent pink
colorless
Technique: 
blown with hot applications
Copyright: 
© Molly Stone

Publications (3)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 51 (right); BIB# 130418
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 78; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861