Claret Jug in "Venetian" Pattern

Object Name: 
Claret Jug in "Venetian" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Claret Jug in "Venetian" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning (glass)
United States, RI, Providence (silver)
Accession Number: 
99.4.94
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 30 cm, L (including handle): 16 cm, Diam (max): 10.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1889-1899
Credit Line: 
Gift of Cliff and Ruth Jordan
Primary Description: 
Claret Jug in "Venetian" Pattern. Transparent "cranberry" glass, sterling silver, gold wash; blown, cut. Jug with sterling silver mount and "Venetian" pattern. Cylindrical body slightly narrower at top; glass rim covered by silver collar, pouring spout, cover and handle one piece of tooled silver which fits over top rim is ornamented with a flower and scroll design on neck, row of flowers on collar, scrolls on hinged cover, and plain, hollow ear-shaped handle extending from neck to body which it does not touch. Body is cut through ruby glass to colorless in a pattern of fans on top, above six vertical diamonds filled with cross-hatching and stars above six diamond filled pointed arches; multi-pointed star on base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Venetian
Provenance: 
Jordan, Clifford, Source
1999-11-19
Jordan, Ruth, Source
1999-11-19
Category: 
Crystal City
Color: 
red
silver
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
mounting
Material: 
lead glass
sterling silver
Inscription: 
GORHAM MFG. CO. STERLING
inscription
: 
at lower edge of mount, beneath handle
N84
label
: 
Affixed on bottom of base

Publications (7)

Yi shu bo li he zhuang shi bo li (Artistic Glass and Decorative Glass) (2009) illustrated, p. 352, pl. 21 (fig. 16-7b); BIB# 166455
Splitting the Rainbow: Cut Glass in Color -- Corning Museum -- Corning, New York (2006-04) illustrated, p. 76 (left); BIB# AI67941
The Gather (2006) illustrated, p. 5;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 11, 15; BIB# AI95008
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 54-55, #84; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 42 (2000) illustrated, p. 192, fig. 30; BIB# AI49427
The American Cut Glass Industry: T. G. Hawkes and His Competitors (1996) illustrated, p. 54, #2-19; BIB# 36646