Cordial Glass

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Object Name: 
Cordial Glass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.757
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.5 cm, D (rim): 5.1 cm; D (foot): 8.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1699
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Cordial Glass. Colorless, with yellowish tinge. Blown. Short conical bowl with fire-polished rim and thick glass at base; attached by merese and glue-bit to second merese atop blown inverted-baluster stem; joined by glue-bit [capstan?] to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979
Color: 
yellow
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619