Vase
Manufacturer: Mount Washington Glass Company (American, 1876-1907, or later)
Date: 1890-1894
Dimensions:
H: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.); Rim Diam: 6.6 cm (2 19/32 in.); Max W (body): 12.0 cm (4 23/32 in.); Base Diam: 10.25 cm (4 1/32 in.)
Medium: Opal lead glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Grace R. Miller
Object number: 1968.70
DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Applied funnel-shaped foot. Two applied solid handles tooled to leaf form, with an applied raspberry prunt at the lower end of each. Deep, concave, rough-ground pontil mark. Body enameled with two dancing figures, in eighteenth-century-style clothing, surrounded by a heavily gilded cartouche, with gilded scroll-like devices (like the right-hand side of the cartouche) on the reverse and three gilded scrolls on the upper surface of the base. Handles completely gilded.
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