"Chelsea Bird" Jar with Cover
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Covered ginger jar shape with high shoulders tapering to moderate base. Cover is a flattened dome shape. The glass was blown and cased with colorless and amethyst layers. The outer amethyst colored layer was cut and carved away into designs featuring birds, insects, and flora of twigs and grass known as "Chelsea Bird" pattern. Large rectangular panel of crosshatch diamond pattern.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Corning
topic: label: web subject
content: Art Glass
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.59.157ab
label: catalog number
content: 59.157ab
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, amethyst (internal surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, lead, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cased (joint piece production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cut (joint piece production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: engraved (joint piece production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: "colorless" (overall color)