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Object Name:

Trick Glass

Place Made:

possibly Italy, Venice

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.

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Provenance:

Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Former Collection

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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)

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Trick Goblet (Family App)

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