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

Crown Milano Stick Vase

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

CultureAmerican

MediumGlass | Gilt

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)

InscribedMarked on bottom with a "CM" intertwined and a crown above.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.5046

On View

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

DescriptionStick vase. Crown Milano. "Pumpkin" shaped bottom. Cone shaped neck with three cuts at the rim and the three parts folded down. Pumpkin part is stained a pale yellow and rather delicately decorated with thick gilt. Black swirled leaf and a flower-like design separating it from the neck. Neck is matte white and enameled with mauve and the like color tulips. Folded rim is enameled with gilt and black.

Exhibition History"American Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts," long term loan, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Spring 2002 - Winter 2005. (Winter 2008) "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 ReferencesKenneth M. Wilson and Jane Shadel Spillman, _Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass_, Volume 2, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2011, 72, fig. 14-42.