Lemon

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Object Name: 
Lemon
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
99.3.35
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17 cm, W: 10.1 cm, D: 5.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1700
Credit Line: 
Gift of Rainer Zietz
Primary Description: 
Lemon. Opaque yellow cased with colorless, lattimo, translucent blue non-lead glass; blown, cased, applied. Segmented ovoid body of opaque yellow glass cased with colorless (with translucent blue trails under colorless casing); surmounted with curled stem and two green leaves made of opaque yellow glass cased with translucent blue. At junction of leaves and stem, six-petaled flower of white glass with yellow center.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Rainer Zietz Limited, Source
1999-11-04
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
opaque yellow
opaque white
Transparent blue
Technique: 
blown
cased
applied
tooling
Inscription: 
SB/119/3
label
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Publications (6)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 30 (fig. 22);
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Three Citrus Fruits (family) (2011)BIB# 131674
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# AI95008
Recent Important Acquisitions, 42 (2000) illustrated, p. 183, fig. 16, center; BIB# AI49427
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 125; BIB# 65446