Flacon I
Date1989
MediumCast glass, brass, gold leaf, pigmented waxes
Dimensions50 x 15 x 9 in.
127.0 x 38.1 x 22.9 cm
127.0 x 38.1 x 22.9 cm
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, with funds from Marvin and Betty Danto, Mrs. William B. Giles in memory of her husband, Modern Decorative Arts Group, Dorothy and Byron Gerson, and Jean Sosin
Object number1990.15
DescriptionLarge cast-glass piece in a flattened torpedo shape. The surface is pitted with intentional scratches and bumps over which gold-leaf and pigmented wax rubbings appear mottled.On View
On view1450/1455
663/525 BC
1450/1475
1945-1949
circa 400
late 12th/13th Century
late 12th/early 13th Century
1879
about 1882 - before 1905
c. 1850