Object Details
- Designer
- Guido Maria Balsamo Stella, Italian, 1882–1941
- Engraver
- Franz Pelzel, Austrian, 1900–1974
- Manufacturer
- S.A.L.I.R., Italian, founded 1923
- Description
- Of ovoid vase form, with two bull's-horn shaped handles, the slightly powdery blue glass, deep engraved with fanciful figures dancing and playing a horn-form instrument with 18th-century hair styles, surrounded by stars and an engraved orb with cross-cut lines; the opposite side engraved with an outdoor picnic scene with bursting Champagne bottle and bubbles with bowl of fruit and wine glasses, all resting on an inverted conical foot engraved with stepped decoration
- Credit Line
- Gift of Neil and Donna Weisman
- ca. 1927
- Accession Number
- 2015-48-4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- glasswares
- Decorative Arts
- Vase
- Medium
- Blown and engraved glass
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 23 × 11.4 cm (9 1/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2015-48-4
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f3a07737-61cb-466d-a17d-41c9858711d4
