ID: 700008807 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008807	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Sirio Vase (vase; Maker: Toso Vetri d'Arte, 1981-1990. Designed by Ettore Sott...; 1982; Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, Unite...; 1998.186)

Note: Whimsical vase on inverted conical, opaque glass base, sloping upwards to a yellow flattened knop/disc, under a large transparent light blue knop surrounding a yellow stem, surmounted by a yellow flattened knop/disc. Short dark red neck and tall conical, upward flaring elongated cup. Two opposed irregular matte orange handles are visibly joined, opposite, to middle of dark red cup and to uppermost yellow flattened knop/disc with colorless glass.

Titles:

Sirio Vase (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

vase [300132254] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers))

Classifications:

decorative arts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1982

Creator Display:

Maker: Toso Vetri d'Arte, 1981-1990. Designed by Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Italian, born Austria, 1917-2007) [preferred,VP]

maker Tosso Vetri d'Arte (Italian glass manufactory, contemporary) [500371695]

designer Sottsass, Ettore Jr. (Italian architect and designer, 1917-2007) [500019835]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1998.186

Credit Line: Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler

Address Note: On View: 20th-Century Decorative Arts, 4th Floor

Other: Creation: Murano, Isola di [7051607] Venezia province (province), Veneto (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: glass

	glass (material) [300010797]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 7 in. (34.9 x 17.8 cm)

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

Related Works:

	prototype is .... Prototype for Sirio [700008808]
	..........vase; Designed by Ettore Sottsass (Austrian, 1917-2007), Manufactu...; 1982; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 1987.234

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Sirio Vase	........ [VP]
	........ Brooklyn Museum [online] (2009-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Brooklyn Museum [online] (2009-)