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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)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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)
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019)
illustrated, Introduction fig. 11;
BIB# 716365
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
The Nonfunctional Functional: Meditations on the Glass Vessel (2014)
illustrated, p. 39;
BIB# AI98504
Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010)
illustrated, pp. 86-87, figure 1; pp. 252-253, #127;
BIB# 115588
The Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01)
illustrated, p. 235, Fig. 5;
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
Zhongguo gu dai bo li ji shu de fa zhan (Development of Chinese Ancient Glass) (2005)
illustrated, p. 6 (4.26);
BIB# 90520
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 71;
BIB# 68214
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;
Venechia Garasu no Miryoko (1995)
p. 11;
History of Glass Crafts (1990-07)
p. 48;
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
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