scent bottle

Object NameScent Bottle with Stopper

Maker Janet Kelman (American, b.1948)

Made Fromglass

Date1982

Place MadeUnited States

Technique(a) blown, sandblasted;(b) flameworked,sandblasted

Size(a,b) H: 7.4 cm, D: 6.6 cm; (b) H: 6 cm

Accession Number82.4.39

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical Description(a) Colorless over translucent light pink glasses; (b) colorless glass; (a) blown, sandblasted; (b) flameworked, sandblasted or ground. Bottle with stopper. (a) Bottle: spheroid. Wall curves inward and downward narrow mouth with plain rim; from shoulder, wall curves smoothly outward, downward and inward; base plain, with slight concavity (perhaps where pontil scar was removed). Body and underside of base have matte, sandblasted surfaces. Body decorated with thirty-one vertical ribs which extend from shortly above rim to shortly above base. Scratched signature in small rectangular area near base that is not sandblasted: "© 1982 / Janet Kelman". (b) Stopper. Upper end is flat with rounded edge; side tapers; lower end rounded. Narrow horizontal band of grinding or sandblasting below top.
Provenance

Source Janet Kelman (American, b.1948) - 1982-05-03