Ale Glass

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Object Name: 
Ale Glass
Place Made: 
Low Countries
Accession Number: 
79.3.252
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 45.3 cm; Rim Diam: 5.7 cm; Foot Diam: 11.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1670
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Web Description: 
This flute is engraved with a portrait of the young William III (1650–1702), prince of Orange, stadholder (elected governor) of the Netherlands (1672–1702), and king of England (1689–1702). William was born shortly after his father died. The inscription on the flute, “Noch Leeft Orangien,” means “[The house of] Orange still lives.”

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
Schick, Viktor, Former Collection
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, applied, engraved

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; blown, diamond-engraved. Tall, tapered, straight-sided bowl with diamond-point engraved decoration: inscribed "Noch Leeft Orangien" above a male portrait (William III, Prince of Orange, later King William III of England), and the royal arms of the Netherlands, with an eagle in flight below, a tree stump with a bird sitting on a growing sprout, scattered floral sprigs, and a moth; stem composed of a disk above hollow ovoid knop and capstan section below; spreading foot with folded rim and rough pontil mark.

Exhibitions (2)

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
 

Publications (7)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 13, Low Countries Tall flute; BIB# 716365
New Insights into 17th and 18th century Glass from Portugal: Study and Preservation (2016) illustrated, p. 26 (fig. 2.3);
Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750 (2004) illustrated, pp. 244-245, fig. 14; BIB# 79761
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 30, #45; BIB# 58995
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 53, #134; BIB# 27783
Glassmaking History in Drinking Vessels (1941-08) p. 80;
Catalogue of the Well-known collection of fine Continental glass Formed by the late Viktor Schick. The Property of Mrs. Hedwig Schick (1939-05-04) lot 140; BIB# 13010