Claret Jug cut in Venetian Pattern

Claret Jug cut in Venetian Pattern

 
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Object Name: 
Claret Jug in "Venetian" Pattern
Title: 
Claret Jug cut in Venetian Pattern
Pattern Name: 
Venetian
Department
American
Category
Crystal City
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Date: 
1889-1899
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
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glassblowing
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cutting
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mounting
Material
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lead glass
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sterling silver
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 30 cm, L: 16 cm, Diam (max): 10.9 cm
Accession Number: 
99.4.94
Credit Line: 
Gift of Cliff and Ruth Jordan
Location: 
On Display
Description
Transparent "cranberry" glass, sterling silver, gold wash; blown, cut. Jug with sterling silver mount and "Venetian" pattern. Cylindrical body slightly narrower at top; glass rim covered by silver collar, pouring spout, cover and handle one piece of tooled silver which fits over top rim is ornamented with a flower and scroll design on neck, row of flowers on collar, scrolls on hinged cover, and plain, hollow ear-shaped handle extending from neck to body which it does not touch. Body is cut through ruby glass to colorless in a pattern of fans on top, above six vertical diamonds filled with cross-hatching and stars above six diamond filled pointed arches; multi-pointed star on base.
Inscription
N84
Label
:
Bottom of base
GORHAM MFG. CO. STERLING
Trademark
:
lower edge of mount, beneath handle
Provenance
Jordan, Clifford, Source
1999-11-19
Jordan, Ruth, Source
1999-11-19
The Gather (2006) illustrated, p. 5;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 42 (2000) illustrated, p. 192, fig. 30;
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 54-55, #84; BIB# 65446
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 11, 15;

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