Jar or Vase

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Object Name: 
Jar or Vase
Place Made: 
United States, probably PA, Philadelphia
Accession Number: 
50.4.183
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7.75 cm; Base Diam: 6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1920-1930
Primary Description: 
Jar or Vase. Lead glass, sapphire-blue; blown-molded; straight sides spreading to short shoulder and contracted below wide mouth with flaring plain rim; geometric pattern, GIII-6: band of vertical ribbing, one of alternate sunburst motif 1 and blocks of diamond diapering, narrow band of diagonal ribbing to right, one of vertical ribbing, single horizontal between bands; on base, band of rays around large plain center; pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
sapphire
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Some Blown-Three-Mold Suspicions Confirmed (1973) illustrated, p. 169, fig. 34; BIB# AI75478