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Vase

Artist Vineland Flint Glass Works (American)

Date1924-1931

DimensionsH: 20.3 cm (8 in.); Rim Diam: 16.6 cm (6 17/32 in.); Base Diam: 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.)

MediumLight transparent amber flint glass over opal glass at base.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Carl R. Megowen in memory of Carl R. Megowen

Object number

1986.112

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, possibly in a turn mold, and finished by tooling to ovoid shape. Decorated with applied threading tooled in a swirling wavelike pattern and marvered into the surface. Exposed while hot to a reducing flame to produce greenish gold iridescence on exterior and silvery rose iridescence on interior of lip. Stone-ground pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRevi, Albert Christian, American Art Nouveau, Camden, NJ, and Toronto, Nelson, 1968, p. 435, top row, right, no. 1710; p. 191, fig. 393 (shape); p. 14, top row, right.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 633, no. 1035.