Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
69.3.6
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9 cm; Rim Diam: 7.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1475-1499
Primary Description: 
Transparent green non-lead glass; blown, pattern-molded. Bell- shaped; cup-shaped rim; waisted sides; flaring, rounded foot; molded broken-swirl decoration on the sides; deep conical kick on the bottom; ribbed sides on the kick; rough ring-shaped pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Hasberg, Erich, Source
Category: 
Medieval
Color: 
green
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (3)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries
Venue(s)
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum 1979-06 through 1979-09
 
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art in the End of the Middle Ages
Venue(s)
Cloisters 1975 through 1975

Publications (3)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, p. 177, #67; BIB# 115588
Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries (1979) p. 20, fig. 1; BIB# 21076
Recent Important Acquisitions, 12 (1970) illustrated, pp. 174-175, #26; BIB# AI97752