Public Fountain on the Little Square in Prague

Title: 
Public Fountain on the Little Square in Prague

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Title: 
Public Fountain on the Little Square in Prague
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Novy Bor
Accession Number: 
86.3.52
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.3 cm; Rim Diam: 9.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1960
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; mold-blown, diamond-point engraved. Cylindrical, straight-sided shape; polished rim; the sides with diamond-point engraved elaborate openwork structure, with scrolls, quatrefoils, and circles, on cross-hatched squares; elaborate lion finial; two curved "pipes" emerge from the sides of a central capstan; wavy band at bottom; polished thick, flat base; inscribed in diamond-point script "L Smrckova"; small yellowed square paper label inscribed "7" in blue ballpoint ink; paper label inscribed "116590" in black ballpoint ink (now in object folder).

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Smrckova, Ludvika (Czech, 1903-1991), Former Collection
Art Centrum, Former Collection
1986
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blown, diamond-point engraved

Publications (1)

Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861