Barrel

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Object Name: 
Barrel
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
53.3.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.2 cm, Diam (max): 15 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Primary Description: 
Transparent light green glass (wald-glass) wioth minute and small bubbles and few impurities; free blown with appplied and tooled parts; oval body with large prunt at base bearing rough pontil mark; applied flat prunts, drawn out to from small loops, crimped ring 1-1/2” below rim and applied ribbed ring foot.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Komor, Mathias, Source
1954-02-10
Color: 
light green
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
Material: 
forest glass

Publications (11)

Beauty of Glass (2000) illustrated, p. 99 (left); BIB# 77736
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990) illustrated, p. 58-59, #47; BIB# 33211
Special Report: The Corning Glass Center (1985) p. 16; BIB# AI14226
A Short History of Glass (1980 edition) (1980) illustrated, p. 52, #45; BIB# 21161
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 50, #56; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 50, #56; BIB# 27582
The Corning Glass Center (1959) illustrated, p. 16 (left); BIB# 99843
The Corning Glass Center (1958) illustrated, p. 16 (left);
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 50, #50; BIB# 27746
The Corning Glass Center (1958) illustrated, p. 16 (left); BIB# 26395
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 40, #36; BIB# 28450