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Following is a list of common use names (given by collectors) for Blenko designs. We are of the opinion that if a design already has a serviceable official catalogue name or brief description it is inappropriate to re-name it. Evocative, poetic or allusive names are the sole prerogative of the designer (ex: Napoleon decanter, Gurggle decanter), others are best left to applying brief and accurately descriptive terms as names rather than inventing interpretive ones.

The list is in chronological order.

 
Early Period 1930-1947


3623 & 3624 (etc); web line vases

 
Anderson Designs 1948-53


948; bent-neck decanter

536; three-footed bowl

538; crimped rose bowl

 
Husted Designs 1954-63

545; applied fish medallion bowl

555; tab-handled martini pitcher

556; horse medallion vase (official name "Large Vase With Applied Horse Motif Button")

557; double portrait jar, also "anniversary jar" as Husted says he designed it in recognition of his second anniversary (official name "Decorative Utility Jar")

558; high-heel bowl (official name "Asymmetrical Sculptured Form")

5518; impressed horse vase (official name "Vase With Delicate Horse Motif Pressed In Center")

5610; form-handled pitcher (a useful revisionist name give by Husted)

5611; tall tab handled pitcher

5615; star medallion vase

573; spouted disk-foot martini decanter

5711; bell-footed pitcher

5716; bamboo vase

581, 582 & 583; Echoes series chalices (a revisionist Husted name)

584 & 585; pierced handled pitcher

5812; cut-out hurricane

5815; Minaret decanter (the name Husted recalls giving it at the time of design)

5819; double pierced-handle bowl

5820; single pierced-handle bowl

5831; tri-colored bowl

5832; three-part epergne

5833; two-part epergne

595; applied dots cylinder vase

597; tri-cornered blobs vase

599; long split-bottle bowl

5910; round split-bottle bowl

5915; U-cut cinched waist vase

5925; pinched cylinder vase

5929; balustrade decanter or elaborate profile decanter ("profile decanter" for short)

5933; oversized perfume decanter

5937; tall cone-stopper decanter

5942; U-cut cylinder vase, also; Glass 1959 vase

605; gemstone or faceted decanter

6024 & 6025; rocket vase

6027; shot glass stoppered decanter, Note: according to Husted this was NOT designed to be a shot glass and he never saw it as such until collectors began referring to it that way

6111; cog decanter

6134; ram's head vase or bookend

6145; rooster bowl

6212; flame stoppered footed genie decanter

6217; fish decanter

6218; sun-face decanter or Omnibus decanter (a name given by Husted as his inspiration was the logo for a television show called Omnibus)

6314; tall flat decanter

6315; square flat decanter

6316; long flat decanter

 
Myers designs, 1964-71

6427; elongated bottle, or extenuated bottle

Gump's Decanter

6520; soldier vase

6525; lady decanter

6527; butterfly decanter

6615; spinning top decanter

6712; coiled cinched waist vase

6713; coiled cinched waist decanter

6721; finial ball lidded jar

6732; elaborate balustrade decanter

7016; sheriff decanter

7022; mushroom stopper decanter

7043; cone footed ball vase

7047; woman vase

   
 
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