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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Black amethyst and colorless lead glass, metal, shade; pressed, blown, tooled, cut; metal parts fabricated by hand. (a) Stem has metal hour-glass shaped portion at top which is hollow and has air-intake holes, attached by plaster to a black-amethyst solid glass stem with three large wafers above a cylindrical solid section and two more wafers below, applied to a pressed portion consisting of a spoll-shaped section above a square foot with a rosettelike hollow underneath; (b) cream-colored painted metal ring-shaped font with filler hole, attached by two hollow tubes to a central metal shaft which has on its side a rectangular metal label lettered "N.E.GLASS CO/BOSTON" and ends in screw threads which fit into (a). (c) Is a tubular burner, which drops into the central shaft of (b); (e) colorless glass circular shade, with the outer surface roughened by grinding and a design of flowers and leaves cut through the roughening which rests on the metal font; (d) cylindrical chimney with a constriction near the larger lower end which fits over the burner; "N.E.GLASS CO/BOSTON" on metal label affixed to stem.
Publications (7)
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 47, #65;
BIB# 65446
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 23;
BIB# 63967
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 23;
BIB# 63967
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: 32 Ready-to-Mail Full-Color Postcards (1998)
illustrated, #19;
BIB# 61155