Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
58.3.194
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.1 cm; Rim Diam: 10.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1650
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless. Blown; tooled. Shallow hemispherical bowl with fire-polished rim is joined by glue-bit to blown stem composed of four flattened knops above tapered section; capstan at base attaches stem to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Morpurgo, Joseph M., Source
1958-11-01
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Dante Marioni: Blown Glass (2000) p. 29; BIB# 65139