Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Basket

Manufacturer Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.

CultureAmerican

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 8 5/8 x 8 3/8 x 4 in. (21.9 x 21.3 x 10.2 cm)

InscribedMarked on polished pontil: "QUEZAL 733"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6141

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-9, Case 53

DescriptionRim pinched together with gold iridescent rope handle attached by amber wafer to form two openings; off-white with bottom half green leaf outline, highlighted with gold and top half white with horizontal stripe of gold chain link. Cased with gold rim bracket-like case of gold iridescent. Crack on amber base of handle.

Exhibition History"Flights of Fancy: The Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company," Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, April 13 - October 20, 1996 Published ReferencesMalcolm Neil MacNeil, "Quezal Art Glass: Part II," THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, (July 1998), 86-95, ill. 66. Revi, AMERICAN ART NOUVEAU, p. 119. Gay LeCleire Taylor, FLIGHTS OF FANCY: THE QUEZAL ART GLASS AND DECORATING COMPANY (Millville, NJ: Wheaton Cultural Alliance, 1996), p. 13, color ill. p. 13.