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Object NamePlate

Maker Neman Glass Factory

Maker Galina Anatotolievna Isaevich

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1960-1960

Place MadeByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Techniqueblown, cut, diamond-point engraved

SizeOverall H: 4 cm, Diam: 34.1 cm

Accession Number93.3.51

Credit LineGift of Carl and Betty Pforzheimer

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTransparent yellow lead glass; blown, cut, diamond-point engraved. Shallow circular plate with upturned rim, edge ground and polished flat; plate decorated on exterior with four cut geometric heads of wheat stalks formed of paired V-cuts (at far left is a single head, right half of plate with group of three heads descending in size from tallest in center of plate), remaining surface covered in fine scratched decoration of grasses and daisy-like flowers on "hairy" stems; scattered bubbles, no pontil; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Carl H. Pforzheimer III

Source Betty Pforzheimer