Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
probably Netherlands
Accession Number: 
51.2.206
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.6 cm; Top Diam: 7.25 cm; Foot Diam: 7.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1770
Primary Description: 
Colorless, presumably lead glass; blown and diamond-point stippled. Funnel-bowl, applied composite balustroid stem with flattened angular knop above small knop at top of inverted baluster with angular knop formation at top, and ball knop, applied sloping circular foot; small rough pontil mark; on side of bowl, vignette with two cupids.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1951-04-23
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (3)

One Dot at a Time
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1983-04-21 through 1983-05-14
Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10
 
Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)
Venue(s)
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 1946-09 through 1946-11

Publications (2)

Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles and Techniques (2005) illustrated, p. 81; BIB# 99164
Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques (2005) illustrated, p. 80; BIB# 79754