Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
probably Netherlands
Accession Number: 
56.3.55
Dimensions: 
H: 10.6 cm; D (rim): 26.2 cm, (base ring): 11.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1501-1700
Primary Description: 
Clear glass with slight brownish tinge and minute bubbles; free- blown and diamond-point engraved (scratched). Deep bowl with flaring rim and folded edge, rough pontil mark at slightly pushed-up bottom, applied ring base; around bowl outside a frieze of floral and S-shaped motifs (S repeated once, twice, 3 and 4 times) with two dragon-like and two deer-like animals (or wyverns and hares), above an arcade-like band.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Arthur Churchill (Glass) Ltd., Source
Color: 
Clear, slight brownish tinge
Technique: 
free-blown, diamond-point engraved (scratched)

Publications (1)

Glass Through the Ages (1st Ed.) (1948) pl. 24, a; BIB# 18668