Bell
Decorative Arts and Design
The decorative design on this bell was made by applying stripes of molten blue and white glass onto a colorless glass body and then “pulling” the blue and white stripes up and down over the surface of the bell to create the wave-like design.
MEDIUM
Glass
DATES
ca. 1850
DIMENSIONS
11 1/2 x 4 11/16 in. (29.2 x 11.9 cm)
MARKINGS
On interior of bell near bottom: hand-painted in green: "243."
SIGNATURE
Unsigned
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
13.916
CREDIT LINE
Purchased by Special Subscription and Museum Collection Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Tall graceful opaque white glass bell-shape with flared bottom, overlaid with symmetrical blue concentric swirls. Attached colorless cut glass tall, thin handle with hexagonal knop at base surmounted by long thin hexagonal stem with small cuts to edges, then flares to small flattened knop surmounted by four-sided tall pyramidal finial. Lacking clapper.
Condition: Good
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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