"Leaf Applique Series"

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Object Name: 
Perfume Bottle with Stopper
Title: 
"Leaf Applique Series"
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
86.4.26
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 17.3 cm; D (body): 6.2 cm, (rim): 6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Primary Description: 
Translucent black/amethyst and colorless non-lead glasses; blown, tooled with hot applications. (a) Black, teardrop shaped bubble has been necked to form a small opening then broadly flared to form a wide iridized collar; remainder of bubble is cased in progressively thick colorless which forms the solid lower half of the slightly tapered cylinder; body is decorated with colorless hot applications of four pairs of large and small stylized leaves which wrap around length of body to base which is ground flat; no pontil; signed and dated by base "cO 1986 WM Glasner LAP86". (b) Elongated teardrop shaped stopper with ground band at juncture with vessel.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Glasner, William (b. 1947), Source
1986-04-24
Color: 
Colorless, black/amethyst
colorless
Technique: 
blown, tooled with hot applications
Copyright: 
© William Glasner

Publications (2)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, pp. 76-77; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861