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

Crown Milano Vase

Manufacturer Mt. Washington Glass Co. (American, New Bedford, MA)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1893
MediumGlass | Gilt | Paint
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Base: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number0.1549
Not on view
DescriptionVase of opaque white glass with pink on the shoulder and neck. Design consists of a painted decoration of thin gold swirls and loops, some of which are filled with green. On one side of the body is a green, gold and brown dragon and on the other side is a griffin of the same colors. The edge of the applied pedestaled base and the top rim are gilded. An applied gold band is on the bottom of the neck.

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, 80, fig. 14-66.
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1893
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1893
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.
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1894
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.
ca. 1894
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
1894
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
1890-1894
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
ca. 1894