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Prunted Beaker

Prunted Beaker

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Object Name: 
Prunted beaker
Title: 
Prunted Beaker
Department
European
Category
Medieval
Place Made: 
possibly Italy
Date: 
1300-1399
Color
AAT
colorless
AAT
yellow
Technique
AAT
glassblowing
AAT
tooling
Material
AAT
glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.4 cm; Foot Diam: 5.2 cm
Accession Number: 
87.3.33
Location: 
On Display
Description
Yellowish, colorless glass with small bubbles; blown with applied ornament. Beaker shape; tall outsplayed rim with rounded lip; tapering wall with slightly concave profile; base with low conical kick; pontil mark. Applied ornament: thin horizontal trail at bottom of neck; thick horizontal trail at bottom of wall, tooled to form base ring with sixteen "toes", on which the vessel stands; between them, occupying whole of wall, four horizontal rows of elongated prunts arranged in quincunx, eight in each row.
Provenance
Biemann, Fritz, Former Collection to 1987
Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia
Venue(s)
Palazzo Ducale 1982-07-24 through 1982-10-24
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
 
Glass: A Short History (The British Museum edition) (2012) illustrated, pp. 46-47;
Glass: A Short History (Smithsonian Books edition) (2012) illustrated, pp. 46-47; BIB# 130360
2010 Summer Exhibitions (2010) illustrated, p. 1, #1;
Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, p. 125, #22; BIB# 115588
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990) illustrated, p. 48, #38; BIB# 33211
Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 103, #4;
Phonix aus Sand und Asche (1988) illustrated, 200-201, #178; BIB# 32871
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) illustrated, pp. 5, 21;
Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982) pp. 68-69, #48 ill.;

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