Wineglass (vetro a reticello)

Object Name: 
Wineglass (vetro a reticello)

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Object Name: 
Wineglass (vetro a reticello)
Place Made: 
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.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Macbeth, George D. (1892-1968), Source
1950-10-01
Category: 
Material: 
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
 
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) illustrated, pp. 78-79, #76; BIB# 63296