Nuppenbecher

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Object Name: 
Prunted Beaker with Trailed Foot
Title: 
Nuppenbecher
Place Made: 
Germany, possibly Rhineland
Accession Number: 
79.3.178
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.9 cm, W: 7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1500
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Transparent dark green non-lead glass; blown, trailed, prunted. Conical straight-sided bowl, with trailed thread below the rim; the lower part of the bowl with applied prunts arranged in six vertical bands of four prunts each; trailed, looped, domed foot; rough pontil mark on the base of the bowl.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Seligman, L., Former Collection
Color: 
Transparent dark green
Technique: 
blown, trailed, prunted

Exhibitions (2)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
 

Publications (4)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, pp. 216-217, #106; BIB# 115588
Phonix aus Sand und Asche (1988) illustrated, p. 354, #431; BIB# 32871
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, pp. 39-40, #92; BIB# 27783
Die Deutschen Glaser des Mittelalters (1933) fig. 57C; BIB# 92925