Plate with Linear Decoration

Object Name: 
Plate with Linear Decoration

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Object Name: 
Plate with Linear Decoration
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Prague
Accession Number: 
83.3.241
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.2 cm, Diam: 35.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1956
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, ground, and polished, acid-etched. Shallow, circular plate with rim ground and polished flat; overall interior etched decoration of narrow, slightly uneven, closely-hatched lines forming three-lobed design (like stylized flower petals) cut off by plate edge, one thick line almost bisects the plate, near plate edge the end of that line tapers and meets (at a right angle) the mid-point of a short thick line; flattened, slightly concave base, no pontil; inscribed on back near rim: "Vanura 56".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Dan Klein Ltd, Former Collection
1983
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, acid-etched

Exhibitions (2)

Glass Behind the Iron Curtain: Czech Design, 1948-1978
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-05-16 through 2002-10-21
National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library 2003-02-28 through 2003-09-28
Corning Incorporated Gallery
Masters of Czech Glass 1945-1965
Venue(s)
Dan Klein Ltd
 

Publications (3)

Czech Glass 1945-1980: Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) p. 301, #247; BIB# 87054
Design in An Age of Adversity: Postwar Glass in Czechoslovakia (2005) illustrated, p. 91; BIB# AI66005
Masters of Czech Glass 1945-1965 (1983) illustrated, #76; BIB# 30951