Sake Cup

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Object Name: 
Sake Cup
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Tokyo
Accession Number: 
84.6.14
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.2 cm, Diam: 4.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1984
Credit Line: 
Gift of Ito Kinuko
Primary Description: 
Canes with translucent very deep blue circular center surrounded (from inside to edge) by colorless ring and very deep blue ring in colorless matrix; preformed canes cast in or on mold; ring base made separately from same preformed canes; body and base fused. Cup, with very slightly outsplayed rounded rim, side with shallow S-shape profile, curving in at bottom, and foot ring.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Ito, Kinuko (Japanese, b. 1942), Source
1984-08-31
Color: 
Colorless, opaque, deep blue
colorless
opacity
Technique: 
millefiori glass

Exhibitions (1)

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1995-06-03 through 1995-10-22