Ornamental Disk

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Object Name: 
Ornamental Disk
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
95.4.398
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.3 cm, W: 7.7 cm, L: 25.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1960-1969
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; pressed, cut, ground, polished. Thick concave disk with front surface cut, ground and polished; rear surface decorated with an impressed design of a sword in a wave-like pattern of parallel lines; sword cut, ground and polished; unsigned.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressed, cut, ground, polished
pressing
cut glass
ground glass