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Object Name:

Roemer with Sepia (Schwarzlot) Decoration

Place Made:

probably Netherlands

Accession Number:

50.3.113

Dimensions:

Overall H: 12.8 cm; Rim Diam (max): 12.3 cm; Foot Diam (max): 8.5 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

about 1670-1729

Web Description:

The scene probably illustrates an account of the second-century Greek author Lucian: Mercury rescued the infant Bacchus and carried him to the nymphs of Nisa, who raised him.

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Department:

Early Modern

Provenance:

Blumka Gallery, Source

1951-01-19

Neuberg, Frederick, Former Collection

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Description

Primary Description:

Roemer with Sepia (Schwarzlot) Decoration. Clear green glass; free-blown, applied decoration, and enameled. Circular bowl with curved sides flaring from wide cylindrical "stem" with conical kick-up in bottom, applied sloping ringed foot built up from a thread of glass; applied thin oval bosses on stem and single thread at top; enameled in wash-drawing style around lower side of bowl: "satyrs" and "nymphs" or maenads in a bacchanalian vintage scene, and a central group depicting Mercury (Hermes) and a "satyr" holding the young or infant Bacchus (Dionysus) whose extended right hand is clasped in that of a nymph.

Exhibitions (3)

Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life

Venue(s)

Albany Institute of History and Art 2002-09-10 through 2002-12

Liquid Refreshment: 2000 Years of Drinks and Drinking Glasses

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 1993-04-24 through 1994-12-31

The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from The Corning Museum of Glass

Venue(s)

IBM Gallery 1989-12-12 through 1990-02-02

National Gallery of Art 1990-12-09 through 1991-04-14

Decorative and utilitarian works from the Corning Museum of Glass, surveying 35 centuries of glass-making technology and stylistic developments from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Islamic, and Asian cultures to contemporary American and European examples. The works were selected by Corning Museum staff members Dwight P. Lanmon, director and curator of European glass; David B. Whitehouse, curator of ancient and Islamic glass; Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American glass; and Susanne K. Frantz, curator of 20th-century glass.