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Object Name: 
Bottle
Department
European
Place Made: 
probably Saxony (Germany), Dresden
Date: 
about 1710-1720
Technique
AAT
cut glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.8 cm, W: 6.1 cm
Accession Number: 
83.3.18
Location: 
On Display
Description
Opaque white. Mold-blown, cut, copper-wheel engraved. Flask: rectangular body with canted corners; short cylindrical neck with fire-polished rim; flat base cut, with polished pontil mark. Flat faces cut with engraved baldachins: one shows comedian with drinking glass in one hand and bottle in other hand; on reverse, dancing comedian playing tambourine, flanked by two satyrs, above scrolled socles; on ends and corners, scrolled panels and flowers (Laub- und Bandelwerk); engraved border of stylized flowers around tops of panels.
Provenance
Krug, Helfried, Former Collection to
Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, Source to 1983-03-18
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
 
The Gather (2008) illustrated, p. 6;
Glass of the Alchemists (2008) illustrated, pp. 284-285, #109; BIB# 103865
The Krug Collection of Glass. Part IV (KRUG IV) (1983-03-14) p. 66, #697;
Sachsisches Glas : die Glashutten und ihre Erzeugnisse (1977) illustrated, pp. 56-57, fig. 43; BIB# 20100
Glassammlung Helfried Krug (1965) illustrated, pp. 260-261, #282; BIB# 27623
Glassammlung Helfried Krug (w/o German section) (1965) illustrated, pp. 188-189, #282; BIB# 27546

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