Polyp

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Title: 
Polyp
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Switzerland
Accession Number: 
85.3.51
Dimensions: 
H: 11 cm, D: 11.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1982
Credit Line: 
Gift of Konrad Affolter
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown in a wooden mold; cut, ground, polished. Cylindrical shape; rim plain with rounded outer edge; wall descends vertically for two-thirds of height and then curves in to bottom; broad, shallow ring base; no pontil mark; wheel-cut decoration covering wall from just below rim to just above base: two groups of curvilinear flame- or leaf-like forms, each of which broadens toward rounded tip; eight of fourteen leaf-like forms have one small bubble close to tip, near inner surface of glass; signed and dated with diamond point on inside of base ring: "KA82".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Affolter, Konrad (Swiss, b. 1952), Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown in a wooden mold, cut, ground, polished
cut glass
ground glass