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Object Name:

Beaker

Place Made:

possibly Bohemia

possibly Germany, Saxony

possibly Germany, Brandenburg

Accession Number:

79.3.574

Dimensions:

Overall H: 8.4 cm; Rim Diam: 7.8 cm; Base Diam: 6.3 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

probably 1725-1750

Credit Line:

Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Primary Description:

Transparent gold ruby. Blown, cut, engraved. Beaker: tapered, straight-sided, and panel-cut; beveled rim; cut flat base with polished pontil mark. Every second panel has alternating cut or engraved decoration; cut panels display series of large oval and small circular roundels, while engraved panels feature pendent fruit and flowers.

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Department:

Early Modern

Provenance:

Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source

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Exhibitions (2)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

Changing Exhibitions Gallery

A Cup of Kindness

Venue(s)

General Foods Collection Gallery 1984-02-01 through 1984-05-01

Publications (2)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 263, #90; BIB# 103865

Rubinglas des Ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts (revised ed.) (2001) illustrated, pp. 81, 175, fig. 88; BIB# 71682