Verre de Soie Bowl with Light Blue Jade Ornament
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Outward flaring conical bowl on raised conical base. Blown from semi-opaque white glass marketed as "Verre de Soie" with a light luster or iridescent sheen. Decorated with trailed on blue glass strands winding around the lower third of the bowl called "reeding." The top section of the bowl has applied and swirling blue dots of applied glass or "prunts." Rim of bowl has blue trailed on rim. Base has a folded edge foot.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Corning
topic: label: 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.1492L
label: accession number
content: 62575
label: catalog number
content: 1492L
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: "colorless" (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, "tyrian blue" (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, ??, opalescent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: applied (joint piece production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 26.67 cm