Jug

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Object Name: 
Jug
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
50.3.61
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.3 cm, Diam (max): 7.4 cm; Rim W: 7.3 cm, D: 6.8 cm; Base Diam (max): 4.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1501-1699
Primary Description: 
Jug. Body of opaque white glass, squat, globular, with mold-blown pattern of 15 vertical ribs; cylindrical neck with flaring rim and small, pinched spout; applied white foot-ring; pontil mark on base. Small crimped and looped handle attached at neck and shoulder of body. White glass of body decorated with flecks and swirls of opaque blue, red, and aventurine glass.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1950-11-22
Color: 
opaque white glass
red
blue
aventurine glass
Technique: 
applied
mold-blowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

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