4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.

Royal Flemish Vase Ewer

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

CultureAmerican

Date1889-1894

MediumBlown glass | Molded | Enamel | Gilt

DimensionsOverall: 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Base: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number83.110

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 2, Section 1 Sh4

DescriptionEwer of blown-molded glass, matte finished with acid and with enamel and gilt decoration. Royal Flemish design. Ewer form with small tan painted and heavy floral scroll gilding on handle. Narrow straight mauve neck with gilt leaf design. Shoulder is mauve and blue with two rows of gilt circles enclosing a quatrefoil gilt design. The rest of the body is divided by gilt into eight long keyhole-like gilt segments enameled tan and mauve. Over this on each side is a heavy gilt chrysanthemum spray. Polished pontil. Good condition, except for numerous breaks and cracks in gilt lines.

Published ReferencesRevi, NINETEENTH CENTURY GLASS, 74-80. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 140, fig. 175. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1 Kenneth M. Wilson and Jane Shadel Spillman, _Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass_, Volume 2, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2011, 32, fig. 13-40.