Vials

Object Name3 Bottles

Artist Richard Craig Meitner (American, b. 1949)

Assistant Mieke Groot (Dutch, b. 1949)

Made FromNon-lead Glass

Date1978

TechniqueBlown with hot applications, etched, tooled, ground

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number79.3.102

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey

Place Made

Netherlands, Amsterdam

Physical Description3 Bottles, "Vials". Colorless non-lead glass cased with opaque white, "black", deep blue; blown with hot applications, etched; stoppers: tooled, ground. Three small thick-walled cylindrical bottles varying slightly in size (a is tallest); each has solid decorated spherical stopper with thick ground shank, (Ab) white dots on blue background; (Bb) blue criss-crossed lines on blue background; (Cb) blue and white swirl; bodies have wide opening where colorless has not been covered by opaque white, straight sides, upper three-fourths opaque white (etched to matte surface), bottom one-fourth black, each bottle has a single curving black linear arrow (varying in length and configuration) extending upward from black area; ground base; rough pontil; inscribed on base of "A": "R. Meinter 78".
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