Paneled Vase

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Object Name: 
Paneled Vase
Place Made: 
United States, probably MA, Boston
Accession Number: 
50.4.286
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16 cm; Rim Diam (max): 13.3 cm; Body Diam: 12 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1820-1830
Primary Description: 
Paneled Vase. Lead glass, colorless; dip-molded and free-blown; bulbous body, short sides tapering into wide cylindrical neck, wide mouth with narrow rolled-over or turned-down rim; on body, twelve contiguous round-topped panels with sides formed by narrow ribs extending to rough pontil mark at center slightly pushed-up base.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1937
to
1950-07-31
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (1)

American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #4, pl. 34; BIB# 25297