Trick Glass (Kuttrolf or Angster)

Object Name: 
Trick Glass (Kuttrolf or Angster)

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Object Name: 
Trick Glass (Kuttrolf or Angster)
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
56.3.91
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.6 cm, Diam: 9.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1699
Primary Description: 
Clear glass with few bubbles; free-blown, pattern-molded and tooled, with applied and tooled decoration. Spherical body with slightly pushed-up base having rough pontil mark, applied neck tooled to form three tubes and supporting an almost cylindrical part surmounted by a cup-bowl; applied sloping ring base with pinched decoration in a narrow pattern, applied band around cylindrical part with drawn-out upright thorns touching a rigaree band, (cf. "lily-pad" decoration); spherical body patterned in 16 rib-mold and expanded.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Category: 
Medieval
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
molding
hot-working
applied decoration
Material: 
glass