Ventana Scent Bottle

Object Name: 
Ventana Scent Bottle

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Object Name: 
Ventana Scent Bottle
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Sweden, Kosta
Accession Number: 
63.3.60
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.7 cm, Diam: 3.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1960-1963
Primary Description: 
(a) Colorless and transparent smoky-amber, black and amethyst glass; blown and cased. Ovoid shape; front and back with concave facets; smoky gray-brown glass inner layer cased with amethyst glass, then cased in colorless crystal; polished pontil mark; scratch-engraved inscription: "Kosta MONA SCHILDT/3-3-1"; non-faceted side with original paper label: "Kosta/SWEDEN"; (b) opaque black glass cased in colorless crystal.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Lunning, Frederick, Source
1963-10-11
Color: 
(a) Colorless, smoky amber
Technique: 
Blown, cased

Publications (3)

Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 218-216, pl. 101; BIB# 33819
The Magic of Glass and the Surface of Monaco from Midtec (1983) illustrated, p. 12; BIB# 22508
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980) pp. 218-219, pl. 101; BIB# 20953