Sea Centerpiece

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Object Name: 
2-piece Sea Centerpiece
Title: 
Sea Centerpiece
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
97.4.38
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1959
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass, Inc.
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, tooled, applied, ground, polished. (a) Bucket-shaped bowl with applied solid, cylindrical base, having four applied wave-like scrolls; ground and polished under base. (b) Slightly domed circular with an applied dolphin and wave finial; ground and polished rim. Gummed paper label with typed no. "8096" near rim; design sketch in white grease pencil on bowl. Design no. 8096.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Former Collection
1997
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
tooling
ground glass
applied decoration
polishing
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
8096
Label
: 
Gummed label Near rim

Exhibitions (1)

Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960
Venue(s)
Museum of the City of New York 2003-10-14 through 2004-04-11

Publications (1)

Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (1982 edition) (1982) p. 290, #8096; BIB# 21935