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jar

Object NameJar
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1901-1968
Place MadeCzechoslovakia
Techniqueblown, tooled
SizeOverall H: 11.6 cm, Diam (max): 7.3 cm; Rim Diam: 6.2 cm
Accession Number69.3.53
Credit LineGift of Dr. S. Urban
Not On View
Physical DescriptionSemi-opaque white glass with black, brownish-red, grayish-green, and yellow enamels; blown, tooled, rim finished at glory hole; decorated with fired enamels. Jar: egg-shaped; rim everted with plain lip; wall descends, curving outward to greatest diameter about 4.0 cm below lip and then curving gently inward to bottom; conical base with tubular edge made by folding and low, domed kick; pontil mark. Decorated on one side of wall with polychrome enamels: garland consisting of two brownish-red serrated leaves springing from brownish-red rose flower at center of bottom and meeting at top with grayish-green rose leaves behind flower and outside lower parts of serrated leaves, and two horizontal brownish-red ribbons streaming outward from flower; supported by garland, brownish-red and yellow crown with high domed cap surmounted by orb with cross; two wavy brownish-red ribbons extend outward and downward from sides of crown; inside garland, two lines of inscription in capitals below orb with cross: LAP.CALA/MIN PP, the orb being brownish-red, the cross black, the initial letters L and C and the final letters PP being brownish-red and the other letters black, all letters having serifs, the As having a V-shaped crossbar, and the letters PP having a black ligature through the upright strokes.
Provenance
Source Dr. S. Urban - 1969
Former Collection Museum of Glass and Jewelry
Museum of Glass and Costume JewelryJablonec, Czechoslovakia
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