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

Flower Form Vase

Manufacturer Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1915

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)
Overall, Rim: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
Base: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)

InscribedEngraved on polished pontil: "Quezal".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number86.277

On View

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

DescriptionFlower form of blown glass. Cup shaped "blossom" of green iridescent glass. Ribbed showing lighter stripes from opal casing decorated with five gold pulled feathering with the lines extending down the 7.75" long green single knop stem. Attached opal dome foot with the top decorated with green "King Tut" like scrolling.

Label TextFLOWER FORM Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company Brooklyn, New York Early 20th century Mold-blown, cased. Mark: engraved on bottom Quezal Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 86.277Exhibition 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 I", THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, Vol. CLIII, No. I, (January 1998): 186-195. Revi, AMERICAN ART GLASS, pp. 115-125. Gay LeCleire Taylor, FLIGHTS OF FANCY: THE QUEZAL ART GLASS AND DECORATING COMPANY (Millville, NJ: Wheaton Cultural Alliance, 1996), p. 9, color ill. p. 9.