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Object NameDeep Flaring Bowl on Wooden Stand

Made FromGlass, Wood

Date1800-1899

TechniqueBlown, carved

SizeOverall H: 7.4 cm, Diam: 33.2 cm; Base Diam: 16.5 cm

Accession Number64.6.2

Credit LineGift of Mr. Howard C. Hollis

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame: Later Chinese Glass

The World in Glass: Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

透明紫色莲花鲤鱼荷叶碗

Place Made

China

Physical DescriptionDeep Flaring Bowl on Wooden Stand. Transparent purple glass; bowl form, blown and carved. a) Bowl wall widely flaring and fluted; rim with eight scallops, and motifs in relief; interior base somewhat convex, and rather deeply cut with pattern of two fish, leaf-like forms and roughly incised lines running in a pattern to rim indicate that the form to look like a lily pad; a thickly rounded base rim in relief with leaves and a lotus bud curving in over a somewhat concave base encircling the unusual, thick, rounded foot rim, expanding outward over flaring body in a design of lotus leaves, lotus flowers, water plants, birds and butterflies. b) Carved wooden stand.
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