Prunted Beaker (Nuppenbecher)

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Object Name:

Prunted Beaker (Nuppenbecher)

Place Made:

Accession Number:

50.3.38

Dimensions:

Overall H: 7.5 to 7.8 cm; Rim Diam (max): 5.8 cm; Foot Diam (max): 4.5 cm

Location:

Not on Display

Date:

1400-1599

Primary Description:

Prunted Beaker (Nuppenbecher). Green or bottle glass, deep bluish green; free-blown with applied and tooled decoration. Irregular form, ovoid body with applied "claw" bosses, cupped rim, center of base with rough pontil mark pushed up in slender cone form; applied crimped ring-like foot.

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Department:

Provenance:

Steuben Glass, Inc., Source

1950-10-01

Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection

Color:

deep bluish green

Technique:

Material:

Exhibitions (2)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries

Venue(s)

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum 1979-06 through 1979-09

Publications (15)

Study Days on Venetian Glass: Moulding and Applying Hot Glass Through the Centuries (2019) illustrated, p. 145 (fig. 3 a);

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, p. 191, #81; BIB# 115588

Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 38; BIB# 96551

Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993) p. 35; BIB# 35660

Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries (1979) p. 20, #3; BIB# 21076

Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 50, #55; BIB# 28793

Glass terminology: a German-English Glossary (1967) illustrated, pl. IV (2nd from left); BIB# 59459

Glass Terminology: a German-English Glossary (1967) illustrated, pl. IV (2nd from left); BIB# 141372

Glass terminology: a German-English Glossary / compiled and published by Benedict Kolthoff (1966) illustrated, pl. IV (2nd from left); BIB# 131404

Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 50, #55; BIB# 27582

Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 50, #49; BIB# 27746

Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 40, #35; BIB# 28450

Art in Glass (1955) p. 148;

The Story of Glass (1953) illustrated, plate 6-7 (fig. f); BIB# 25461

Title Unknown (Antiques) (1952-08)