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Covered Goblet (filigrana a retortoli). Colorless, with grayish tinge (cover with brownish gray tinge); lattimo. Vetro a fili, vetro a retorti; tooled. Tall bowl consisting of eight light bulges that diminish in diameter from top to bottom, with flaring, fire-polished rim; stem composed of depressed blown knop between colorless mereses; blown pedestal foot with infolded edge and pontil mark. Domed, flanged cover repeats formation of goblet, in six bulges that diminish in diameter from bottom to top. Cover is finished with colorless finial consisting of capstan with solid knop. Pontil mark at apex of cover.
Goblet is decorated with vertical bands of lattimo (a fili) alternating with six ply cables (a retorti); lattimo threads on cover are in same formation as those on goblet. Cover does not fit properly, and goblet and cover are slightly different in color.
Exhibitions (2)

El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2008-04-13 through 2008-07-27
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2008-08-22 through 2008-11-09

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17
Publications (24)
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 67;
BIB# 68214
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 29;
BIB# 63967
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: 32 Ready-to-Mail Full-Color Postcards (1998)
illustrated, #9;
BIB# 61155
History of Glass Crafts (1990-07)
p. 49;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 96-97, pl. 40;
BIB# 33819
Machines in the glasshouse : the transformation of work in the glass industry, 1820-1915 (1984)
illustrated, p. 54, fig. 6;
BIB# 27110
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 96-97, pl. 40;
BIB# 20953
Multimedia (1)

Cane Making
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