New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Covered Jar

Manufacturer A.D. Copier

CultureDutch

Date1926

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)
Overall, Rim: 6 in. (15.2 cm)

InscribedMarked on bottom near polished pontil: "1926 LEERDAM UNICA AD Copier 198".

Credit LineGift of Joan Foy French

Object number71.6368

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 58

DescriptionCovered jar. JAR: Of pale amethyst glass with a tooled chain link design around the middle. Outer skin is "stretched" and cracked with a thin plating of opaque on the collared rim. Cylindrical, sloping to the small narrow foot. COVER: Matches. Faintly dome shaped with chain-link around the edge. Attached solid round flat top finial.

Label TextDesigned by Andries Dick Copier Dutch (b.1901) Leerdam Glassworks, Holland Covered Jar, ca 1926 Blown glass Gift: Joan Foy French Collection 71.63a & bPublished ReferencesCatalogue, LEERDAM UNICA: 50 JAHRE MODERNES NIEDERLANDISCHES GLAS, pg. 6, Item #10, duplicate illustrated in 1977.