Yellow Magic

Object NameBottle

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

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1966

Place MadeUnited States, CA, Santa Barbara

Techniqueflameworked, tooled

SizeOverall H: 25.1 cm, Diam (max): 6.2 cm

Accession Number85.4.51

Credit LineGift of Elsie Burton

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Decades in Glass: The 60's

Contemporary Flameworked Glass

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

On ViewModern Gallery

Physical DescriptionBottle, "Yellow Magic." Colorless, transparent yellow and red, translucent white non-lead glass rods/tubes; flameworked, tooled. Elongated baluster-shaped bottle widening from top toward bottom with raised yellow dot decoration; narrow neck opening with slightly tooled lip, just below rim is an encircling row of small raised colorless dots striated with red, elongated neck flows into body waisted at three points--top three lobes (in varying sizes) are covered with closely spaced small applied yellow dots in high relief, lobe second from the top (ovoid-shaped) has an additional encircling row of larger colorless dots at mid-point, third (pear-shaped) lobe has encircling row of larger colorless dots at base, fourth lobe (flattened spherical) is striated with white and has three rows of widely spaced large marvered dots and two large applied blobs of colorless on opposite sides; irregular hollow conical base formed from spiraled white glass; applied in relief on base in yellow: "J".
Provenance

Source Elsie Burton - 1985