Flute-Cordial or Ratafia Glass

Object Name: 
Flute-Cordial or Ratafia Glass

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Object Name: 
Flute-Cordial or Ratafia Glass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
50.2.69
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.5 cm; Rim Diam: 5 cm; Foot Diam: 7.25 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1765-1770
Primary Description: 
Flute-Cordial or Ratafia Glass. Colorless lead glass with opaque white twists; blown, applied, molded in 10-rib mold and ribs twisted slightly to right. Slender flute-shape bowl, applied straight stem with central opaque white gauze-twist within pair of tape spirals, applied slightly sloping foot with plain rim, rough pontil mark; bowl decorated in colored enamels: scrolled-leaf circlet just below gilded rim; vertical string of graduated light blue beads between ribs.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Hadden, Harvey, Former Collection
Color: 
opaque white glass
colorless
Technique: 
molding
enameling
gilding
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (4)

The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby
Venue(s)
Laing Art Gallery 1980-09-05 through 1980-10-31
East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
 
Title Unknown (Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
Venue(s)
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1948-11 through 1948-11
Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10
 

Publications (4)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 19 (fig. 7);
Enamelling and Gilding on Glass (2013) illustrated, p. 74 (right); BIB# 142116
The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby, 1761-1778 (1980) p. 10 (#30); BIB# 22578
Beilby Glass in America Including Some Recent Discoveries (1951-06) fig. IX; BIB# AI46083