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Vase

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Object Details

Designer

Guido Maria Balsamo Stella, Italian, 1882–1941

Manufacturer

S.A.L.I.R., Italian, founded 1923

Description

Of slightly everted vase form, painted with dancing black figures and colored sprays, the figures like Jazz-Age versions of ancient Egyptian or other African figures, with stylized hair and poses, set on a disc-form foot

Credit Line

Gift of Neil and Donna Weisman

Date

ca. 1927

Accession Number

2015-48-5

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

glasswares
Decorative Arts
Vase

Medium

Blown glass, vitrerous enamel

Dimensions

H x diam.: 17 × 11 cm (6 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

manufactured in

Italy

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq40f65fb43-2c9b-4826-baa3-d5d277df44bd

Record ID

chndm_2015-48-5

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