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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2010.
Vase
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2010.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2010.

Vase

Manufacturer Mt. Washington Glass Co. (American, New Bedford, MA)
Designer Albert Steffin
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1894
MediumGlass | Gilt
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
InscribedMarked on polished pontil in yellow: "NAPOLI 829".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.5093
Not on view
Exhibition History"In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, October 20, 1986 - January 11, 1987. "Mount Washington and Pairpoint: American Glass from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties," Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, May 19 - December 31, 2011.Published ReferencesGrover, ART GLASS NOUVEAU, pg. 68. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, IN PURSUIT OF BEAUTY: AMERICANS AND THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT, (Rizzoli: New York, 1986), pg. 248. Kenneth M. Wilson and Jane Shadel Spillman, _Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass_, Volume 2, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2011, 125, fig. 16-3.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1890-1895
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1894
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
1890-1894
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
1894
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé
ca. 1897
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1894
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1886
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
19th century
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
1889-1894