Nightcap

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Object Name: 
6 Cups
Title: 
Nightcap
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
84.6.13
Dimensions: 
a) H: 6.7 cm, W: 7.1 cm; b) H: 6.7 cm, W: 7 cm; c) H: 6.7 cm, W: 7 cm; d) H: 6.7 cm, W: 7 cm; e) H: 6.7 cm, W: 7 cm; f) H: 6.7 cm, W: 7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Primary Description: 
Blue(a-d), colorless (e) and lavender (f) glasses; pate de verre. Cylindrical with tab handle, height of cup, vertical ridge on opposite side of cup; marked on base: "8°8/lll [indecipherable] lll".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Ito, Kinuko (Japanese, b. 1942), Source
1984-05-03
Color: 
Blue, colorless, lavendar
blue
colorless
Technique: 
Pate de verre
Inscription: 
808/Japanese ideograms
signature
: 
base

Exhibitions (1)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations
Venue(s)
Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village 2005-04 through 2006-01

Publications (5)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations (2005) illustrated, p. 67, fig. 101; BIB# 87714
Esineita Lasimurskasta: pate de verre-lasinvalmistustekniikka (1992) illustrated, p. 78; BIB# 35689
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 177, bottom, left; BIB# 32803
New Glass Review, 5 (1984) illustrated, p. 13, #39;
Nightcap (1983) illustrated BIB# 101192