Decanter with Stopper, Design #6732-L
Decanter with Stopper, Design #6732-L
Artist
Joel Philip Myers
(American, born 1934)
Manufacturer
Blenko Glass Company
((1921- present))
Datedesigned: 1967; made: 1967-1968
DimensionsH: 29 1/4 in. (74.3 cm); Diameter: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
MediumMold-blown, cut, and polished. The bulbous body and matching stopper blown of transparent olive green glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Helen Brooks in memory of Mayme and Rudolph Luedtke
Object number
2013.11A-B
Not on View
DescriptionThe baluster-shaped vessel is mold-blown of olive green glass, its rim is cut and fire-polished. The matching stopper has a baluster finial that is also mold blown.
Published ReferencesCf. Blenko Glass Company, Sales Catalog, 1967, page 8 (ill.)
"Blenko. Uniquely American Modernist Glass," in The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles, Vol. V No. 2, April 2004. (ill. in tangerine color)
Crain, Damon, "Wild West Virginia Artisans," Modern Magazine, Summer 2011, repr. (color) p. 53 (ill. in tangerine color).
Crain, Damon, "Blenko Glass: For Museums and the Masses," Modernism Magazine, Volume 10, No. 3 Fall 2007, repr. (color) p. 75 (ill. in plum color).
"Recent Important Acquisitions," New Glass Review 35, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 2014, repr. (col.) p. 121.
Exhibition HistorySeattle, The Blenko Museum, Studio Sensibilities and Specialty Lines, May 2003 to February 2004 (this design but in plum).
1810-1830
Wayne Husted
designed: 1958
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