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

Vase

Manufacturer Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1904
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
InscribedEtched across polished pontil: "QUEZAL P 286"
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6121
Not on view
DescriptionSquat bulbous with 5 bracket style scallops around flaring gold rim. Five green leaf outlines on white and over this 5 gold "feathers" and 5 attached gold "plant" forms from below "bracket" with tails trailing to bottom under "plant". Top is 1.5" of gold threading, interior top cased with gold.

Label TextQuezal Art Glass & Decorating Co. Mold-blown, cased, iridescent. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.6121Exhibition 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. 1. (January 1998): 186-195. Gay LeCleire Taylor, FLIGHTS OF FANCY: THE QUEZAL ART GLASS AND DECORATING COMPANY (Millville, NJ: Wheaton Cultural Alliance, 1996), p. 12, color ill. p. 12.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
ca. 1900-1915
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Co.
No Date
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Co.
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co.