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Ale Glass

Ale Glass

 
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Object Name: 
Ale Glass
Department
European
Maker(s)
James Giles Workshop, Maker - Probably
Place Made: 
England, probably London
Date: 
about 1760
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
blown, gilt
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.7 cm; Rim Diam: 6.6 cm
Accession Number: 
79.2.44
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless lead glass; blown and gilt. Tall round funnel bowl with gilt rim and gilt decoration, consisting of a pair of barley sprays on one side, and trailing pendant hops and leaves on the other; tall straight stem enclosing a double series opaque white twist (single twelve-ply spiral band encircling two intertwined heavy spiral threads); conical foot; rough pontil mark; inscribed in white paint near the pontil mark "138.".
Inscription
138
Mark
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near pontil mark white paint
Provenance
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-22

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