Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.212
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.2 cm; Rim Diam: 9.6 cm; Foot Diam: 7.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1600-1625
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
360 Image: 

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Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless, transparent light blue. Blown; applied, tooled. Trumpet shaped bowl with fire-polished rim and two applied handles, with rigaree decoration between handles and bowl; two applied loops holding loose milled rings of translucent blue glass; joined by merese to blown inverted baluster stem; attached by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979
Color: 
blue
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
hot-working
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 11; BIB# 716365
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 1, 59, 63, 66, 68; BIB# 149619

Multimedia (1)

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