Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Pitcher
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
85.6.8
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.4 cm, W: 14.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1982
Credit Line: 
Gift of Iwata Glass Co., Ltd.
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass with dark blue mottling and black; cased, blown, tooled and etched. Irregular pitcher with handle; small black bulbous vessel with narrow top opening flanked by a small "finger" handle formed by pinching the sides of the glass and tooling the opening; irregular organic form fabricated from colorless covered with crushed dark blue then cased in colorless and flashed in black creating on roughly textured surface; body tooled while hot then overall exterior is acid etched in liquid striation; interior evenly etched; solid bottom is ground and polished flat with four small paper feet.
Provenance: 
Iwata Glass Co., Ltd., Source
185-04-30
Color: 
Inscription: 
6
label
4925
label
Hisatoshi Iwata (1982)
Venue(s)
Wako Tokyo 1984 through 1984