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Object Name:

Footed Beaker with Cover

Place Made:

Germany, Potsdam

Accession Number:

72.3.49

Dimensions:

Overall H: 27 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

about 1720-1735

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. Jerome Strauss

Primary Description:

Dark gold ruby. Blown, cut. Beaker with waisted bell-shaped bowl; cut rounded ribs on upper twothirds, and relief-cut acanthus leaves around base. Blown foot with infolded rim and polished pontil mark, panel-cut, with circle of rounded acanthus leaves. Domed cover, with rounded sides and inset flange; cut rounded ribbing and acanthus leaves below ovoid leaf-decorated finial with diamond-faceted top.

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Department:

Early Modern

Provenance:

Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source

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Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

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Publications (5)

Alchemy & Glass: The Mystery Explored at Corning Museum (2008-06-20) illustrated

Alchemy & Glass: the Mystery Explored at Corning Museum (2008-06-20) illustrated, p. 46;

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 249, #80; BIB# 103865

Rubinglas des Ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts (revised ed.) (2001) pp. 70, 159, fig. 20; BIB# 71682

Rubinglas des Ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts (1997-12-15) Band 2, p. 9, #20; BIB# 60294