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  • Pinch Drinking Glass, 1950

    Heavy clear colorless swelling body pinched at base to form concave panels which resolve into a circular single form 2/3 the distance to the slightly flaring lip. Foot ground into…

  • Flare Drinking Glass, 1950

    Cylindrical body of transparent bluish bubbly glass flares outward to a slightly thickened lip.

  • Flame Drinking Glass, 1950

    Clear colorless swelling body, the heavy foot rotated through 45-degrees to form four curving concave panels which resolve into a circular form 2/3 the distance to the slightly thickened lip.

  • Sidewall, Giraffes, 1953

    Similar to a bandbox paper of the 1830s. Medallion has large giraffe with two oriental figures pulling at its bridle reins. This alternates vertically with small medallion of a lion-like…

  • Sample (USA), ca. 1950

    Woven sample with horizontal stripes of tans, greens and bright fuchsia. Warp is white silk; wefts are thin tan, off-white, and fuchsia chenille, bright green synthetic yarn, very thick yellow-green…

  • Sidewall, Persian Miniature, 1955–58

    Against a mustard yellow ground are printed figures in Persian costumes, animals, fowl, blossoms and foliage in an all-over design based on the motifs and conventions of Persian miniature painting.…

  • Design For Sidewall, Spanish Geraniums, 1951

    Sketch of wallpaper showing colorful geraniums in light pink and orange on a tan background. Margins filled with notations; upper right: first sketch submitted to / manufacturer; lower margin: “Spanish…

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