Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
56.3.86
Dimensions: 
H: 20.6 cm; D (rim): 10.2 cm, (foot): 8.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1601-1699
Primary Description: 
Clear glass being very bubbly towards the top; free-blown, with applied and tooled decoration. Straight-sided body increasing in diameter towards rim, and having high pointed "kick" with rough pontil mark at base, applied sloping foot built up of spiral thread; beaker covered with small vanishing prunts formed by applying drops of glass to the gather and expanding it to a beaker shape.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Color: 
Clear
Technique: 
free-blown, applied and tooled decoration