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Primary Description:
Beaker with Whistle. Conical bowl with fire polished rim and rounded base; plain merese. Vetro a reticello decoration, with air bubbles trapped between canes. Gadrooned mount, with attached open cage containing bell. Above this, whistle: winged dragon with open mouth and curled tail. Frame to sides of dragon consists of herms, supporting arch with three thin, turned finials; fixed inside arch is paddle wheel of four compartments, one of which bears inscribed date “1673.”
Exhibitions (1)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17
Publications (7)
Study Days on Venetian Glass: Approximately 1600's (2014)
illustrated, pp. 178, 180 (fig. 1);
Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century (2001)
illustrated, p. 60, right;
BIB# 68390