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Retort

 
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Object Name: 
Retort
Department
European
Category
Baroque
Place Made: 
possibly Northern Europe
Date: 
probably 1700-1799
Color
AAT
blue
AAT
green
Technique
AAT
glassblowing
Material
AAT
glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 43 cm; Body Diam: 20 cm
Accession Number: 
56.3.33
Location: 
On Display
Description
Transparent bluish-greenish extremely bubbly glass; free-blown. Almost cylindrical body with large spout tapering towards orifice both forming a 6 (D. of glass at orifice ca. 1/4"), another small conical spout applied to the retort where body leads over to large spout; both orifices unworked.
Provenance
Linares, Abelardo, Source to
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Psychedelic Mania: Stephen Rolfe Powell's Dance with Glass (2012) illustrated, p. 25, fig. 9; BIB# 130415
Glass of the Alchemists (2008) illustrated, p. 142, Fig. 2; BIB# 103865

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