Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
probably Italy, Venice
possibly Low Countries
Accession Number: 
50.3.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.3 cm; Rim Diam: 10.2 cm; Foot Diam: 6.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1650-1700
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Opaque white and colorless glass with grayish tinge; vetro a fili, blown, mold-blown. Bell shaped bowl with fire polished rim; blown knop with short cylindrical part, joined directly to bowl; base mold blown with five registers of drop shaped bosses; pedestal foot with infolded edge and pontil mark. Allover decoration of plain opaque white spiral bands (a fili).

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
colorless
white
gray
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (3)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Helsinki 1550-1640 (1994) illustrated, p. 209 (top); BIB# 78447
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) illustrated, pp. 72-73, #67; BIB# 63296