Rosaria Overlay Vase in "Adelaide" Pattern

Object Name: 
Rosaria Overlay Vase in "Adelaide" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Rosaria Overlay Vase in "Adelaide" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, New Bedford
Accession Number: 
2009.4.97
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 30 cm, Diam (max): 16.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1920-1936
Web Description: 
A full-page Pairpoint advertisement from May 1922 mentions “the growing demand for Colored Glass.” Rosaria was one of several colors added in the 1920s.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Adelaide
Provenance: 
Pitt, William D., Source
2009-09-30
Color: 
red
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cased glass
tooling
cutting
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless and red glass; blown; cased, cut. Vase has wide colorless foot with large colorless ball stem with numerous small air trap bubbles. Bowl of vessel in conical which gradually flares to rim. Body is cut with alternating crossed lines and ovals, with a band of crossed lines running around just below rim. The color red is referred to as "Rosaria."; the pattern is Adelaide.

Exhibitions (1)

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-05-19 through 2011-12-31
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (3)

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties (2011-07-18) illustrated, slide 68; BIB# 167277
Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass Encomposing the History of the Mt. Washington Glass Works and Its Successors, the Pairpoint Companies Volume Two (2011) illustrated, p. 273 fig. 20-60; BIB# 88066
Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass 2011 (2010-12) illustrated, p. 2;