vase
Object Name2-part Cameo Gourd Vase with Stand
Made FromGlass, Teakwood
Date1912-1949
Place MadeChina, probably Boshan
Techniqueblown, cased, carved
SizeOverall H: 23.2 cm
Accession Number74.6.3
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionOpaque white glass with green overlay; blown, cased and carved. Two globe shapes, the smaller fitting into the larger, forming a gourd shape. (a) Design of two cut units of a blossom and leaf scrolls with intervening tripartite leaf motif below and an encircling motif surrounding the mouth, suggesting a flat scalloped collar with two jointed elements intervening, above, between the main leaf scrolls; at the base a narrow ring of the green and a solid area of green running into a flat ring base with hollowed white center containing a square four-character seal in green, in slight relief. (b) Similar body design of blossom and leaf scrolls, but other differing details; encircling the mouth a fret border and, slightly separated, a scalloped flat, collar-like band with two jointed extensions downward between the two leaf scrolls; intervening tri-partite leaf motif intervenes below between the leaf scrolls; instead of a solid green area at the base, a band of green and a flat green ring-base, centered with white containing a square green four-character (differing from that on a). (c) Teakwood stand.Provenance
Source
Mrs. Ogden Ray Smith
- 1974-10-31
about 1880
about 1830-1869
probably 1850-1900
800-999
about 1500-1525