Albarello with Cover

Object Name: 
Albarello with Cover

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Object Name: 
Albarello with Cover
Place Made: 
possibly Italy, Tuscany
Accession Number: 
54.3.108
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.8 cm, Diam (max): 9.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
possibly 1600-1799
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Ellen D. Sharpe
Primary Description: 
Transparent fairly thin pale green ("bottle green") glass with bubbles; free-blown and tooled. Conical foot with kick-up and rough pontil mark, the body, with rounded bottom, is almost cylindrical and has a wide bulge below the short cylindrical neck; (b) set-in domed cover with flattened ball finial with slight pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Sharpe, Ellen D., Source
1954-06-01
Color: 
pale green
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (3)

Corning Museum Announces Glass Seminar October 16-18 (2008-07-04) illustrated, p. 48;
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal - Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 6 (bottom); BIB# AI101015
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 150, #9; BIB# 103865