Jelly Glass

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Object Name: 
Jelly Glass
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
67.2.17
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.6 cm; Rim Diam: 7.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1740-1760
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, pattern-molded. Cup-topped double- ogree bowl, with vertical ribbing (20 ribs); ball knop stem containing multiple air beads; domed, ribbed foot; rough pontil mark; square label with cut corners, printed "BER / NEY" and inscribed "306" glued on the top rim of the foot.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1967-12
Berney, George F., Former Collection
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
molding
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
306
Inscription
: 
inscribed glued on the top of the foot on label
BER / NEY
Inscription
: 
printed glued on the top of the foot label

Publications (3)

Investing in Georgian Glass (1971) p. 98, bottom center; BIB# 74772
Collecting Georgian Glass (1971) p. 98, bottom center; BIB# 87457
Investing in Georgian Glass (1969) p. 98, bottom, center; BIB# 27206