Drinking Horn

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Object Name: 
Drinking Horn
Place Made: 
probably Low Countries
Accession Number: 
66.3.60
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1600-1650
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Drinking Horn. Colorless, opaque white. Vetro a fili, vetro a retorti; applied; silver mounts. Long and slender horn-shaped body made from opaque white canes a fili and a retorti; two colorless ribbons and one colorless loop-shaped handle applied to outside of body; silver cap at narrow end of horn; hinged cover with thumbpiece on top rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1966
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
silver
opaque white glass
colorless
Technique: 
mounting
glassblowing
applied decoration
vetro a fili
vetro a retorti
Material: 
glass
silver

Exhibitions (1)

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17