Soft Shoulders

Object NameBottle

Maker John Burton (American, b. United Kingdom 1894-1985)

Made FromNon-lead glass Rods

Dateabout 1979

Techniqueflameworked, tooled

SizeOverall H: 20.6 cm; Diam (base): 5.4 cm

Accession Number85.4.59

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Elsie Burton

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

The Magic of the Lamp: Flameworked Objects from the Permanent Collection

Contemporary Flameworked Glass

Place Made

United States, CA; United States, HI

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent cobalt blue, white, black non-lead glass rods and tubes; flameworked, tooled. Elongated bottle in roughly cylindrical shape; narrow opening with flared slightly irregular rim, cylindrical neck is collared, then widens slightly and is decorated with three encircling bands of narrow, black, marvered crosshatching above a band of blue that extends part way on to rounded shoulder, shoulder swells out to flattened sphere and is striated white covered with a band of large blue dots of swirled and spiraled blue (cane slices?), at base of shoulder is an applied wrap of colorless with blue spiraling, colorless cylindrical body is tooled to form multiple slight waist rings, base of body formed by an applied band of colorless that tapers in and is flattened and encircled by an applied wrap forming a flared foot; no pontil; applied on base in relief with blue glass: "J".
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