Wineglass (vetro a reticello)

Object Name: 
Wineglass (vetro a reticello)

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Object Name: 
Wineglass (vetro a reticello)
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
50.3.68
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.5 cm; Rim Diam (max): 10 cm; Foot Diam (max): 9.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1650-1699
Primary Description: 
Wineglass (vetro a reticello). Conical bowl with sides tapering sharply to colorless glass merese atop short, blown cylindrical shank drawn up from large, flattened knop and attached by colorless merese to shallowly flaring pedestal foot with pontil mark. Overall fine reticello diamond lattice (lace) design formed by narrow opaque white canes, with tiny air bubble at center of each diamond.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Macbeth, George D. (1892-1968), Source
1950-10-01
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
white
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

A Cup of Kindness
Venue(s)
General Foods Collection Gallery 1984-02-01 through 1984-05-01
East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
 

Publications (2)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) illustrated, pp. 78-79, #76; BIB# 63296