Albarello

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Object Name: 
Albarello
Accession Number: 
2000.3.16
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.7 cm, Diam (max): 9.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1700-1799
Primary Description: 
Transparent pale brownish and opaque white glass, paper; blown, applied, marvered, tooled. Waisted shape with vertical stripes coming in at shoulder to low flaring rim, high kick in base.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Christie's, Paris, Source
2000-03-28
Category: 
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Florence, Albarello; BIB# 716365
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 148, fig. 7; BIB# 103865