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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.

  • Cap (Egypt), late 13th–early 14th century

    Man’s cap of bright blue silk formed from six isoceles triangles, with a deep band to encircle the head. The triangles have quilted geometric borders and fillings; the band has…

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  • Dado (England), 1817–27

    Simulates wooden Chinese fretwork railing with elements repeating horizontally. An illusion of depth is achieved by means of shadows against yellow irregular wave background. Printed in purple on yellow ground.

  • Dado (France), 1810

    A horizontal rectangle shows two children. The boy has placed a board over a small brook and the girl is in the act of crossing over. A floral rope marks…

  • Dado (France), ca. 1815

    Large horizontal rectangle containing motif of doves perched on a quiver of arrows. On either side are vertical rectangles the designs of which are identical: a trophy made up of…

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