Sake Cup

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Object Name: 
Sake Cup
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan
Accession Number: 
84.6.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.8 cm, Diam: 7.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Primary Description: 
Green, white, brown glass; millefiori technique. Canes with opaque white circular center surrounded (from inside to edge) by translucent green ring, opaque white ring with star-shaped perimeter, narrow translucent green ring, apparently with star-shaped perimeter, and translucent brown ring with star-shaped perimeter; preformed canes cast in or on mold; disk base made separately from same preformed canes; body and base fused. Cup with double-convex profile and disk base; rounded rim, side with double-convex profile, although upper part is almost straight; plain disk base with flat bottom.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Uchimura, Yuki, Source
1984-07-17
Color: 
Green, white, brown
green
white
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