Autumn Leaves

Object NameScent Bottle with Stopper

Series

Four Seasons

Artist Matthew Buechner (American, b. 1957)

Studio Thames Street Glass House

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1987

Techniqueblown with applied colored frit, flameworked

Size(a & b) H: 11.8 cm, L: 9.8 cm, W: 5.4 cm; (a) H: 8.9 cm; (b) L: 9.8 cm

Accession Number87.4.74

Credit LineGift of Matthew Buechner

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with applied decoration of transparent green, orange, black, white; vessel blown with applied colored frit, canes of colored glass and glass frits applied with blowtorch (flameworked) while hot; hotworked colorless stopper. Small, flattened bubble body with narrow opening and short thick neck, white frit has been scattered to give appearance of clouds, green/black frits scattered towards the base; decoration on one flattened side of lampworked tree with black trunk and branches and orange and green leaves blowing in the wind; base is ground and polished flat; inscribed in script around exterior edge of base: "Matthew Buechner c 1987 Thames Street Glass".
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