bottle

Object NameBottle and Stopper

Factory Steuben Glass, Inc. (1903-)

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1938-1950

Place MadeUnited States, NY, Corning

TechniqueBlown; Tooled; Engraved; Ground; Polished

SizeH: 12.6 cm; Diam: 8 cm

Accession Number98.4.489

Credit LineGift of Design Dept., Steuben Glass, A Division of Corning Glass Works

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBottle and Stopper. Colorless lead glass; blown, furnace-worked and cased; engraved, cut; ground, and polished; a) bulbous shaped perfume bottle; concave circular top with small opening in center; opening part of ovoid shaped vessel enclosed in upper portion of object; bottle tapered out to spherical shape, three sets of thin stems with vertically oriented eye-shaped decorations at top engraved onto exterior; flat circular base ground and polished; b) spherical stopper; engraved with eye-shaped decorations that get progressively smaller from the top out; ground cylindrical stopper on bottom.
Provenance

Source Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1989-01-19