Cordial Glass

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Object Name: 
Cordial Glass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
50.2.9
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.6 cm; Rim Diam: 5.25 cm; Foot Diam: 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1775
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass. Straight-sided rib-molded bowl, applied, long, straight stem with brilliant blue wavy core within narrow opaque white taper spiral, applied sloping circular foot with plain rim, rough pontil mark; top of bowl above ribbing encircled by grapes and leaves in white enamel.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Brown, Henry (English), Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
blue
opaque white glass
Technique: 
molding
enameling
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Venue(s)
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945-11 through 1945-11

Publications (3)

Enamelling and Gilding on Glass (2013) illustrated, p. 74 (2nd from right); BIB# 142116
The Ingenious Beilbys (1973) illustrated, p. 22, pl. 9a; p. 63; BIB# 27395
Beilby Glass in America Including Some Recent Discoveries (1951-06) fig. X; BIB# AI46083