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)
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
DescriptionDumbbell shaped vase with irregularly placed "dimples" on the lower half. Rim is four square "tongues" crimped and gilded. Clear glass with a raised webbing of gilt. Enameled inside with yellow chrysanthemums, green leaves, and brown stems. Polished pontil.Exhibition HistoryLent to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9/4 for exhibition "In Pursuit of Beauty: American and the Aesthetic Movement," Oct. 20, 1986 to Jan. 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.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
