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

Burmese Vase

Manufacturer Mount Washington Glass Co. (American, 1837 - 1900)

CultureAmerican

Date1885

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Base: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number0.1546

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-4, Case 28

DescriptionBlown satin Burmese glass; urn shape with pair of tall angular handles extending 1.5" above rim and applied flaring round dome feet. This is recorded in photo of Mount Washington Burmese, and sold originally for $40.00.

Exhibition HistoryLoaned to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9/4/86 for show "In Pursuit of Beauty: American and the Aesthetic Movement", Oct. 20, 1986-Jan. 11, 1987. Published ReferencesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art. _The Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement_. New York: Rizzoli, 1986, p. 248. Betty B. Sisk, _Mt. Washington Art Glass plus Webb Burmese Identification and Value Guide_ (Kentucky: Collector Books, 2003), 211.