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Footed Jar

 
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Object Name: 
Footed Jar
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Place Made: 
probably Italy, Venice; possibly Low Countries
Date: 
about 1570-1600
Color
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colorless
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gray
Technique
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glassblowing
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blow molding
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall 21.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.5 cm; Shoulder Diam: 12 cm; Foot Diam: 10.6 cm
Accession Number: 
60.3.87
Location: 
On Display
Description
Footed Jar. Bulbous, slightly conical bowl with pronounced shoulder and conical neck with fire-polished rim; joined by glue-bit to mold-blown ribs, flattened knop; attached by glue-bit to replacement pedestal foot. Deep mold blown decoration on bowl consists of two pairs of dragons bound together at neck but looking backward; their long tails or legs, which are also bound together, end in volutes. Vertical motifs to which tails or legs are bound are surmounted by crown with cross; along shoulder, frieze of flutelike ribs.
Provenance
Henrich, Wilhelm, Source to 1960
Arthur Churchill (Glass) Ltd., Former Collection to
Glass Through The Ages (Rev. Ed.) (1969) illustrated, pp. 68 and 129, pl. 16a;
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 2, 26, #34; BIB# 28036
Glass Through the Ages (Revised) (1959) illustrated, pp. 68 and 129 and pl. 16a; BIB# 65361
Glass Through the Ages (1st Ed.) (1948) p. 63 and pl. 13a; BIB# 18668

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