Bandwurm glas

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Object Name: 
Bandwurm glas
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
53.3.36
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 26.7 cm; Rim Diam: 8.8 cm; Foot Diam: 11.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1600-1699
Primary Description: 
Clear glass with minute and spike-like bubbles and few blobs of unfused sand; some wear marks; free-blown and engraved with applied tooled parts. Tall body slightly tapering to outspreading foot with underfolded rim and high kick-up with rough pontil mark; rigaree-hatched spiral thread around body, beginning 1-1/4" above base and ending 2-1/4" below rim, between thread and the engraved "No. 10".

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1953-11-10
Color: 
Clear
Technique: 
free-blown, engraved with applied tooled parts

Exhibitions (1)

East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory

Publications (2)

Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 33-34, #48; BIB# 28036
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 46, #44; BIB# 28450