Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
60.3.12
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16 cm; Rim Diam: 8.7 cm; Foot Diam: 8.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1575-1650
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless, with yellowish tinge; bubbly. Blown. Bell-shaped bowl flaring to wide, fire-polished rim; joined by merest to solid knop atop slender, blown inverted-baluster stem; attached by captan to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Former Collection
1960
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (3)

The glass of wine : the science, technology, and art of glassware for transporting and enjoying wine (2018) illustrated, p. 7, fig. 1.6;
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Historia del Vidrio: desarrollo formal, technologico y cientifico (2012) illustrated, Fig. 73, p. 91; BIB# 139172