Flask with Nip't-Diamond Waies

Object Name: 
Flask with Nip't-Diamond Waies

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Object Name: 
Flask with Nip't-Diamond Waies
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
60.2.32
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14 cm; Diam (max): 8.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1680-1690
Primary Description: 
Clear heavy glass with a few bubbles; blown, with applied and tooled decoration. Flattened circular body with sloping shoulder curving to tapering neck which increases slightly in diameter at rim, applied pad base with rough pontil mark; thread collar applied to upper neck; lower body has nip't-diamond waies, upper body has a double guilloche band which has been pinched, on the upper body on each side a group of four applied raspberry prunts grouped in a pyramid fashion, applied and pinched rigaree bands applied to the two narrow sides of the body.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1960-03-15
Color: 
Clear
Technique: 
blown, applied, tooled

Exhibitions (2)

Treasures in Glass
Venue(s)
Allentown Art Museum 1966 through 1966
A Decade of Glass Collecting
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1962 through 1962
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art 1962-10 through 1962-10
 

Publications (1)

Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 40, 42, #64; BIB# 28036