Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
85.3.5
Dimensions: 
H: 25.4 cm, W: 13.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1955
Primary Description: 
Colorless with transparent aqua, red and opaque orange non-lead glasses; blown with applications, ground, polished. Flattened vertical shape with rounded corners and small lipless opening in thickened top; thinly blown straight walls with a wide aqua band on one broad side and opposite side with staggered design of seven applied vertical rectangles in transparent red, the rectangles have single opaque orange crosspieces and one has double crosspieces; thick base ground flat and polished; signed on base "PAULY/A. Barbini".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Klein, Dan, Former Collection
Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, Source
1985-01-02
Color: 
Colorless, aqua, red, orange
colorless
aqua
red
Technique: 
blown with applications, ground, polished
ground glass
Copyright: 
© Alfredo Barbini

Exhibitions (1)

Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1987-05-16 through 1987-10-25
Toledo Museum of Art 1988-01-10 through 1988-02-21