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Tankard. Colorless and opaque white glass, silver, gilding; blown and hot-worked glass with applied handle, reinforcement hoop, and foot; cast, chased, and partially gilt silver. Vetro a fili and vetro a retortoli, colorless glass with a pink tinge, with lattimo threads and bundles of twisted lattimo threads, cylindrical wall, tapering slightly towards the top, foot-ring blown from the mantle, high kick in base, upper reinforcement hoop and handle made of a single trail of colorless glass each; later mount: silver, parcel-gilt, cast and chased. The mount was added later to the tankard (circa 1700): the lid, which has a wavy rim, is decorated with a relief medallion on which the Samian Sibyl is portrayed holding an open book.
Publications (4)
Major Glass, Library Acquisitions Added to Corning Museum Collection (2015)
illustrated, p. 317 (bottom left);
BIB# 705344
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2014 (2014)
p. 7;
BIB# 706293
The White Gold of Venice: Filigree Glass for European Kunstkammer (Das weisse Gold von Venedig: Filigranglas für die Kunstkammern Europas) (2014)
illustrated, p. 59 (far right), p. 140-141, 206-207, 212, and centerfold (cat. no. 38);
BIB# 139359