Bottle with stopper
Marinot began his career as a Fauvist painter, becoming fascinated with glassmaking after visiting the Viard glass factory in 1911. At first he experimented by enameling clear blanks supplied by the factory; in 1912 he apprenticed himself to the factory’s gaffers and soon was blowing his own forms and engraving or acid-etching geometric and abstract patterns onto their surfaces. A master of integral decoration, he introduced gold flecks, used different colors of opaque glass in tandem, and exploited the random, trapped air bubbles considered undesirable by other glassworkers; equating glasswork with the art of painting, he signed each of his bottles, flasks, and stopped jars. Marinot’s glass won universal acclaim at the 1925 Paris exposition.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bottle with stopper
- Designer: Maurice Marinot (French, Troyes 1882–1960 Troyes)
- Date: 1923
- Medium: Glass
- Dimensions: H. 6-1/4, W. 4-5/8, D. 3-1/4 in. (15.9 x 11.7 x 8.3 cm.)
Weight: 2.78 lbs (1.26 kg.) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of James H. Stubblebine, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.473.7ab
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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