Ale Glass

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Object Name: 
Ale Glass
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
61.2.7
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1680-1700
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, pattern-molded, pincered. Conical bowl, with spirally-ribbed gather on the lower half; ending in a flammiform fringe; merese above a stem with five wafer-pincered wings at the top, and a small ball at the base; folded conical foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Davis, Cecil, Source
1961-11-27
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
tooling
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (2)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Treasures in Glass
Venue(s)
Allentown Art Museum 1966 through 1966
 

Publications (3)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 178, #26; BIB# 103865
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 42-43, #68; BIB# 28036
English Glass, Paperweights, Rugs, Tapestries and Furniture (1961-11-02) lot #37; BIB# 7270