Small Bowl

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Object Name: 
Small Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
86.2.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.7 cm, Diam: 9.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1985
Primary Description: 
Colorless with translucent and lime-green non-lead glasses; kiln-formed using ring-mold, sandblasted edge. Irregular hemisphere with rounded base; layer of colorless flashed in lime-green fused to a layer of colorless window glass, opalescent lustre enamel applied in a mottled pattern sandwiched between both pieces of glass; bowl formed by slumping glass into a ring-mold; interior and exterior have been sandblasted leaving a matte surface; rim abraded to reveal three layers (green exterior) with tapered, thin, irregular edge; rounded base, no foot, object rests on bubble ring.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Coleridge of Highgate, Former Collection
1986-04-02
Color: 
Colorless, Translucent, Lime-Green
colorless
translucency
Technique: 
Kiln-Formed, Ring-Mold, Applied, Sandblasted

Publications (2)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 198; BIB# 32803
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861