Vase
ca. 1890 (made)
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The vase is made of greenish-yellow glass streaked with orange, bubbled and with 'aventurine' silver flecks or 'clutha'. It has an elongated, tapering body, with tilted, slightly swelling neck.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Yellow and orange glass, with silver flecks |
| Brief description | Vase of 'clutha' glass, designed by Christopher Dresser, for James Couper & Sons, Glasgow, ca.1890. |
| Physical description | The vase is made of greenish-yellow glass streaked with orange, bubbled and with 'aventurine' silver flecks or 'clutha'. It has an elongated, tapering body, with tilted, slightly swelling neck. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'CLUTHA / designed by C.D. / registered',with a floral device, etched (Makers's mark) |
| Object history | This vase was acquired by the art dealer J Jesse in Paris in the mid 1960s. He swapped it, almost immediately, for a Tiffany vase belonging to the collector Karel Citroen. Jesse recounts that Citroen was 'fascinated by the modern look of Dresser's designs.' Citroen subsequently sold the vase to Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read and, following their untimely deaths, was purchased from their estate by the V&A in 1972. Jesse, John, A Fridge for a Picasso, London 2014, pp. 150-1. |
| Bibliographic reference | Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000
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| Other number | 9280 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.52-1972 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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