Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
possibly France
probably Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
75.3.187
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.7 cm; Rim Diam: 8.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1725-1775
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Beaker. Lattimo, brown, blue. Blown; applied. Bell-shaped, in opaque white glass, with fire-polished rim and applied flat foot-ring. Outside surface is decorated with opaque brown and blue glass frit marvered into surface. Pontil mark on base.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1975
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
opaque white glass
brown
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619