Wineglass

Wineglass

 
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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Department
European
Place Made: 
Italy, Veneto, Venezia, Venice
Date: 
1600-1699
Color
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colorless
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colorless
Technique
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glassblowing
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blow molding
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applied decoration
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tooling
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.7 cm, D (rim): 8 cm, D (foot): 8.5 cm
Accession Number: 
74.3.163
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Wineglass. Colorless. Blown, mold-blown; applied, tooled. Conical bowl with fire-polished rim, encircled with applied thread three times at two-thirds height, and with “spiky” gadrooning on second gather around bowl’s lower half; joined by merese to hollow stem—with pattern of twists and 16 [Florian to check number.] ribs (blown in optic mold)—consisting of four flattened ball knops and tapered section at bottom; stem is attached by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Source
1974
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) pp. 96-97, no. 103; BIB# 63296

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