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

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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.