Trick Glass

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Object Name: 
Trick Glass
Place Made: 
possibly Italy, Venice
possibly Spain
Accession Number: 
79.3.280
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.9 cm, L: 27 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1625
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Web Description: 
This complex drinking glass is composed of 14 pieces. A trick glass from the Museu de les Arts Decoratives de Barcelona has a very similar construction, but the drinking funnel has been lost and its applied canes are in greater relief. Another closely similar object was illustrated by Giovanni Maggi in 1604. Such vessels were intended to be an amusement for drinking games. As one drinks from this glass, the liquid in the tubes and bulbs suddenly rushes out, dousing the drinker.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Former Collection
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
yellow
colorless
Technique: 
vetro a fili
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with light yellow tint; blown, applied (vetro a fili).

Exhibitions (1)

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17

Publications (11)

Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder (2020) illustrated, p. 165;
Acquisitions (2018) illustrated, pp. 54-55; BIB# 716602
Trick Goblet (family) (2011)BIB# 131685
Trick Goblet (adult) (2011)BIB# 134354
Jurors' Choice (New Glass Review 32) (2011) illustrated, p. 92, top; BIB# AI95693
Glass, Knocking at the Door of Art (2010) illustrated, p. 31; BIB# 115616
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 85; BIB# 96551
Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750 (2004) illustrated, pp. 126-127, no. 7; BIB# 79761
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993) Cover; BIB# 35660
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 106, #21; BIB# AI9181
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 60, #157; BIB# 27783

Multimedia (2)

Trick Goblet
Video
Trick Goblet (Family App)
Video