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Object NameSaucepan and Cover

Factory Bagneaux Factories

Factory Chateaurous Factory

Manufacturer Sovirel (Société Des Verreries Industrielles Réunies Du Loing)

Made FromNon-lead Glass, Glass-Ceramic (Pyroceram)

Dateabout 1980

Place MadeFrance, Bagneaux-sur-Loing

TechniquePressed

SizeOverall H: 11.8 cm, Diam: 18.8 cm; L: 26.3 cm

Accession Number98.3.34

Credit LineGift of Corning Inc., Dept. of Archives and Record Management

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Note found inside object indicates this saucepan is part of the earliest Visions line, that it was made in the plants at Bagneaux-sur-Loing, France about 1980, and that the glass composition, created by Ken Chyung of Sullivan Park, has a U.S. patent. Note: Corning Glass Works, Saint-Gobain, and Boussois formed Societe SOVIREL at Bagneaux-sur-Loing in 1955.

Physical DescriptionTransparent, reddish brown non-lead glass; glass-ceramic (Pyroceram); pressed; a) hemispherical shaped pan; rim machine finished; two handles, one opposite the other, handles have rounded ends and sides that flare out to rim, "FRANCE" molded into top of one handle, "X" molded into underside of other; body of pan tapered in to bottom; flat circular base; b) circular cover; domed with flat top; sides of dome taper out to flat pressed out rim; two handles, one opposite the other, handles have rounded ends and sides that flare out to rim; "FRANCE" molded into underside of one handle, "L" molded into top of other; rim underside has raised inner edge.
Provenance

Source Corning Inc., Dept. of Archives and Record Management - 1998-08-17