2961 BY Fenton Burmese Trillium Vase
This is a gorgeous burmese trillium vase made for Fenton’s 1997 Connoisseur Collection. Limited to 1,750. Features the signatures of 11 Fenton family members.
From the 1997 June catalog supplement:
”FENTON’S COMMITMENT TO THE PRODUCTION OF RARE AND UNUSUAL GLASS TREATMENTS
Each year Fenton carefully selects a small grouping of art objects--
unique in design and made in exotic glass treatments and limited in number. Sure to please those who have the expert knowledge and discriminating taste to appreciate the finest in art glass.”
”BURMESE TRILLIUM VASE
The beautifully detailed Trillium pattern was designed by Robin Spindler. Inscribed with the signatures of 11 Fenton family members, the vase is made from a mould that was first used circa 1932.”
”BURMESE
Burmese was the name given to this exotic glass treatment in 1885 by its creator Frederick Shirley, of the Mt.
Washington Glass Company in New
Bedford, Massachusetts.
Shirley's formula calls for uranium and gold as the basic coloring materials. Uranium gives the glass its flourescent yellow color.
The glass is cooled slightly in the process of
handblowing and when the edges are re-heated for further shaping, the gold molecules join with each other and grow in size, causing the color of the reheated edges to change to the lovely pink typical of this highly desired glass.
After years of experimentation by Fenton chemist Charles W. Goe, Burmese entered the Fenton line in 1970.”
Measures approximately 9 1/2 inches tall.