Covered Beaker

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Object Name: 
Covered Beaker
Place Made: 
Europe
Accession Number: 
79.3.487
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.6 cm; (a) Beaker H: 12.3 cm, Diam: 8.4 cm; (b) Cover H: 7.2 cm, Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1700-1799
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Covered Beaker. Calcedonio. Blown. Beaker with cover. Bucket-shaped bowl, with rounded base and fire-polished rim, set directly on pedestal foot of double-ogee profile with infolded rim and pontil mark. Flanged domed cover surmounted by merese and solid dumbbell finial.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1979
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
amber
Technique: 
agate glass
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 35; BIB# 149619