Vials

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Object Name: 
Small Cylinder with Stopper
Title: 
Vials
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Accession Number: 
79.3.102 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.3 cm; (a) Bottle H: 9.5 cm, Diam: 2.8 cm; (b) Stopper H: 3.2 cm, Diam: 2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Primary Description: 
Bottle with Stopper, "Vials". Colorless non-lead glass cased with opaque white, "black", deep blue; blown with hot applications, etched; stoppers: tooled, ground. Small thick-walled cylindrical bottle with solid decorated spherical stopper with thick ground shank. (b) White dots on blue background. (a) Bottle has wide opening where colorless has not been covered by opaque white, straight sides, upper three-fourths opaque white (etched to matte surface), bottom one-fourth black, a single curving black linear arrow extending upward from black area; ground base; rough pontil.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Meitner, Richard Craig (American, b. 1949), Source
1978
to
1979-09-21
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
white
blue
black
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
etching
tooling
grinding
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
R Meitner 78
signature
: 
base Signed on base: "R Meitner 78".
Copyright: 
© Richard Craig Meitner

Exhibitions (3)

Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Craig Meitner
Venue(s)
Museum of Glass 2010-07-17 through 2011-06-19
Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Craig Meitner
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
West Bridge Exhibit
 
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art

Publications (1)

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p, 152, #145; BIB# 20603

Objects in Set (3)

Vials
Artist:Meitner, Richard Craig
Date:1978
Accession Number:79.3.102
Vials
Artist:Meitner, Richard Craig
Date:1978
Accession Number:79.3.102 B
 
Vials
Artist:Meitner, Richard Craig
Date:1978
Accession Number:79.3.102 C