Wisteria

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Wisteria
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NC, Penland
Accession Number: 
76.4.10
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.4 cm, Diam (max): 20.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1976
Primary Description: 
Vase. Transparent pale green non-lead glass cased with colorless non-lead glass with opaque blue, white, and reddish-brown flowers and opaque green, orange and transparent dark blue-black tenacious botanical shapes; blown; applied cane drawing; furnace-worked and cased.. Heavy circular rounded upper rim bulbous body with cased botanical shapes resembling water lilies and wisteria vines; flat ground base; wheel engraved near base: "Mark Peiser . PWVOOC . 1976".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Theo Portnoy Gallery, Source
1976-04-09
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
green
brown
purple
Technique: 
glassblowing
lampworking
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Mark Peiser

Exhibitions (1)

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit

Publications (7)

Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 36, 78-79 (fig. 73, plate 16); BIB# 149403
What, No More Dues? (2001) illustrated, p. 23; BIB# AI53906
Mark Peiser: Change (1998) p. 5, ill.; BIB# 61281
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 131, #130; BIB# 35679
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 69; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 5; BIB# 2318
Recent Important Acquisitions, 19 (1977) illustrated, p. 180, #62; BIB# AI90914