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Beaker

Beaker

 
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Object Name: 
Beaker
Department
European
Place Made: 
Germany
Date: 
about 1601-1699
Color
Clear
Technique
free-blown, applied and tooled decoration
Dimensions: 
H: 20.6 cm; D (rim): 10.2 cm, (foot): 8.9 cm
Accession Number: 
56.3.86
Location: 
On Display
Description
Clear glass being very bubbly towards the top; free-blown, with applied and tooled decoration. Straight-sided body increasing in diameter towards rim, and having high pointed "kick" with rough pontil mark at base, applied sloping foot built up of spiral thread; beaker covered with small vanishing prunts formed by applying drops of glass to the gather and expanding it to a beaker shape.
Provenance
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source to 1956

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Publications

Funf Westdeutsche Nachlasse, Deutscher und Auslandischer Kunstbesitz, (catalogue #446) (1956-11) #640;
Sammlung Schloss B.. In Oberhessen, Frankfurter Adels= und Patrizierbesitz (1933-05-22) #492, pl. 27;

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