Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
51.3.118
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 26.3 cm; Rim Diam (max): 7.8 cm; Foot Diam (max): 10.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1650-1700
360 Image: 

Dragon-Stem Goblet

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Web Description: 
This dragon-stem goblet exemplifies the virtuosity of Venetian glass makers. The complex, colorful stem shows a serpent with a convoluted body, outspread wings, open jaws, and a crest. Known in Italian as vetri a serpenti, serpent-stem goblets were very fashionable in the 17th century. The serpent motif is frequently found in the decorative arts of the Baroque period. The high viscosity of the Venetian soda-lime glass was ideal for the creation of such elaborate forms. Substantial numbers of large covered glasses with flat, symmetrical serpent stems were made by Venetian craftsmen in the Netherlands and Germany during the second half of the 17th century. In the 18th century, many of these glasses were engraved with genre scenes, floral motifs, and inscriptions.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Mannheim Collection, Former Collection
Brigham, Mrs. Harry Hillyer, Source
1951-01-31
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
gray
red
white
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
applied
tooling
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless non-lead glass of grayish tinge, red and white canes, translucent blue; mold-blown, applied, tooled, blown. Straight sided bowl with fire polished rim; rounded base, supported by merese and blown gourd shaped double knop; lower knop twisted, with 14 ribs. Lower knop is capped and attached with glue-bit to dragon stem made of twisted, molded 12 ribbed cable of colorless glass enclosing one red and two white canes; white canes are partly enclosed in aqua colored glass. Red cane and at least one white cane are cased in colorless glass (they appear hollow). Twisted cable is S shaped; upper, thicker part, which forms dragon’s head, is applied, with colorless glass muzzle, aqua colored snipped crest, pinched “ears” and “eye,” and, below these, two snipped wings. Wings and ears have been pinched with very subtle waffle patterned tool. Lower part of cable is coiled and edged with applied notched ribbons of colorless glass. Both ends of cane are broken off; top end is fire polished, and tip is rough. Dragon is joined, with glue-bit, to mold-blown (12 ribs) knop and merese, which forms upper part of capstan; capstan is supported by shallow, blown foot with pontil mark.

Exhibitions (5)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17
 
Islam and the Medieval West
Venue(s)
University Art Museum, Binghamton 1975 through 1975
Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600
Venue(s)
Detroit Institute of Arts 1958-11-18 through 1959-01-04
 
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (48)

Altes Glas ([1951]) illustrated, pp. 68, 68, #140; BIB# 18799
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 11; BIB# 716365
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 1; BIB# 149619
Museum News: New Online Resource Reveals Mysteries of Venetian Glassmaking Techniques (2016) illustrated, p. 3; BIB# AI101639
Online Resource Reveals Mysteries of Venetian Glassmaking Techniques (2016) illustrated, p. 301 (middle); BIB# AI102873
CTbK_OTO KATO N3KYCTBO (2014) illustrated, p. 44; BIB# 142483
The Nonfunctional Functional: Meditations on the Glass Vessel (2014) illustrated, p. 39; BIB# AI98504
Escort Guide to the Galleries (2013) illustrated, p.17; BIB# 134015
Escort Guide to the Galleries [V4/2013] (2013) illustrated, p. 17; BIB# 134856
From Italy: Venice -- Glass Island (2011) illustrated, p. 46, right; BIB# AI92597
Glass, Knocking at the Door of Art (2010) illustrated, p. 32; BIB# 115616
Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, pp. 86-87, figure 1; pp. 252-253, #127; BIB# 115588
Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, p. 6; BIB# 109342
The Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, p. 235, Fig. 5;
Window, mirror, and prism (2009-01) illustrated, p. 126; BIB# AI77118
Through Glass Objects and Poems (Atraves Do Vidro: Objetos E Poemas) (2006) illustrated, p. 40; BIB# 106729
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 32; BIB# 96551
Shades of Glass (2006) illustrated, p. 20, top; BIB# 100967
Tesori del Vetro al Corning Museum of Glass (2005-12) illustrated, pp. 22-23, fig. 6; BIB# AI67739
Zhongguo gu dai bo li ji shu de fa zhan (Development of Chinese Ancient Glass) (2005) illustrated, p. 6 (4.26); BIB# 90520
European Glass in the Venetian Style 1500-1750 (2004-08) illustrated, p. 72; BIB# AI63553
Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750 (2004) illustrated, preface, fig. 3; BIB# 79761
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001) illustrated, p. 71; BIB# 68214
Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: The Fragile Craft (1999) fig. 4.11; BIB# 60411
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# 63967
Shattering Perceptions Art and Craft in coalesce in Studio Glass (1997) p. 52;
Where Things Come From (1997) illustrated, p. 45; BIB# 84627
Venechia Garasu no Miryoko (1995) p. 11;
The Corning Museum of Glass, Curators' Choice (1995) illustrated, #7; BIB# 36655
The Bulfinch illustrated encyclopedia of antiques (1994) illustrated, p. 92; BIB# 26855
The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993) illustrated, p. 18, #29; BIB# 35681
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 203; BIB# 58995
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 46, #34; BIB# 35679
History of Glass Crafts (1990-07) p. 48;
William Gudenrath: The Art of Experiment (1990) illustrated, p. 40; BIB# AI25540
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990) illustrated, p. 52, #40; p. 51; BIB# 33211
Il Vetro Veneziano (1982) illustrated, p. 132, fig. 123; BIB# 30775
Vetri, gionelti, smalti, tabacchiere (1981) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# 30910
Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 27, left; back insdie cover, left; BIB# 67749
A Short History of Glass (1980 edition) (1980) illustrated, pp. 46,-47, #38; BIB# 21161
Islam and the Medieval West (1975) illustrated, no. G29; BIB# 18974
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 39, fig. 42; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 39, no. 42; BIB# 27582
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) pp. 84-85, no. 84; BIB# 63296
Glas (1958) illustrated, p. 47, fig. 43; BIB# 25567
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 39, #36; BIB# 27746
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 29, no. 22; BIB# 28450
Histoire de la verrerie et de l'émaillerie (1886) illustrated, pp. 91-92, fig. 29; BIB# 27780