Vessel

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Object Name: 
Vessel
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, London
Accession Number: 
87.2.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.35 cm; Rim Diam: 7.75 cm; Body (max): 8.85 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass appearing translucent white; pate de verre. Thin-walled ovoid vessel with neck of two wide beveled rings collaring in to meet short, sloped shoulder, extending to egg-shaped body; narrow base ground flat; "1986" on polished base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Alston, Margaret (English, b. 1956), Former Collection
1986
to
1987-02-04
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Pate de verre
Inscription: 
1986
Date
: 
Base

Exhibitions (2)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations
Venue(s)
Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village 2005-04 through 2006-01
Christmas Show
Venue(s)
British Craft Centre 1986 through 1986
 

Publications (2)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations (2005) illustrated, p. 41, fig. 55; BIB# 87714
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 198; BIB# 32803