Jug

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Object Name: 
Jug
Place Made: 
probably Central Germany
Accession Number: 
89.3.10
Dimensions: 
H: 14.7 cm, D: 9.8 cm, W(incl handle): 10.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1601-1700
Primary Description: 
Transparent dark blue-green non-lead glass; blown, pattern-molded, trailed. Globular body with cylindrical neck decorated with an all-over "checkered-diamond" pattern (repeated pattern of four small diamond-shaped cells within a larger cell); applied loop handle, with small pincered thumbrest at the top, and folded attachment at the bottom; disk foot formed of threading trailed on a rigaree thread at the base of the body; rough ring-shaped pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Blok, W. Bastiaan, Source
1989-01-31
Color: 
Transparent dark blue-green
Technique: 
blown, pattern-molded, trailed

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1989 (1990) p. 5; BIB# AI96380