Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.

Napoli Vase

Manufacturer Mt. Washington Glass Co. (American, New Bedford, MA)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1894

MediumGlass | Gilt

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)
Overall, Rim: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

InscribedPrinted in yellow on bottom near rim: "NAPOLI 810-3".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.5094

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-6, Case 39

DescriptionNapoli clear glass lily shaped vase. Ribbed with an attached dome ribbed foot and a folded under rim. Attached to vase with two wafers. Attached mid band of rigaree. Enameled outside with gilt mesh overall. Underfoot, decorated with a chrysanthemum. Probably had one partly inside vase, but this is worn off now.

Exhibition History"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 ReferencesBetty B. Sisk, _Mt. Washington Art Glass plus Webb Burmese Identification and Value Guide_ (Kentucky: Collector Books, 2003), 211. 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. 16-4.