Sweetmeat Glass

Sweetmeat Glass

 
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Object Name: 
Sweetmeat Glass
Department
European
Category
Baroque
Place Made: 
England
Date: 
about 1770-1780
Color
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gray
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colorless
Technique
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glassblowing
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molding
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cutting
Material
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lead glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.5 cm; Rim Diam: 12.25 cm; Foot Diam: 11 cm
Accession Number: 
51.2.167
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless, presumably lead glass, of gray cast; blown, pattern-molded, and cut. Large double-ogee bowl attached by small merese to Silesian (molded shouldered) stem set in collar at center of domed foot; small rough pontil mark; decoration: flat cutting on bowl -- rim in alternate pointed and broad round scallops; on long upper curve of sides, below each broad scallop, small pointed quatrefoil on large diamond formed by lunar slices, vertical slice at pointed scallop and in space between diamonds, three facets in clover-like formation in space formed by lower sides of diamonds and a long swag; on short lower curve of sides, row of divided ovals above row of circles --; on stem, eight vertical ribs tapering from diamond boss on shoulder; on foot, eight fine ribs extending from diamond boss on dome to cut scalloped and beveled rim.
Provenance
Cutler, Leonard, Former Collection
Steuben Glass, Inc., Former Collection
1951-04-11
Davis, Cecil, Former Collection
A Touch of Glass
Venue(s)
Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society 1995-02-15 through 1995-09-15
Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)
Venue(s)
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 1947-09 through 1947-12
 

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