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Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Date: 
1575-1625
Color
AAT
colorless
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brown
Technique
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tooling
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm; Rim Diam: 15 cm; Foot Diam: 8.7 cm
Accession Number: 
76.3.34
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Goblet. Colorless, with brownish tinge; lattimo. Vetro a retorti, vetro a reticello; tooled. Slightly pointed hemispherical bowl with fire polished rim; joined by glue-bit of colorless glass to blown inverted baluster stem; joined by second colorless glue-bit to tall, blown, domed foot of double ogee profile, with infolded rim and pontil mark. Bowl, stem, and foot are all decorated with elaborate design a reticello, with groups of five equally spaced single threads alternating with twisted a retorti cables of six strands, catching bubbles in intersections.
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Former Collection to 1976
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) pp. 80-81, #80; BIB# 63296

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