Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
2000.3.10
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17 cm; Rim Diam: 9.8 cm; Foot Diam: 8.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1575-1650
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless. Blown, mold-blown; tooled. Bowl shaped as two graduated knops rising to flaring, fire-polished rim; attached by merese to twisted mold-blown stem with two knops above inverted baluster; joined by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Christie's, Paris, Source
2000-03-28
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 55a, 59, 63; BIB# 149619
Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 199, fig. 14; BIB# AI53002
An Important Collection of Venetian and Facon deVenise Glass, sale #6272 (2000-03-28) p. 38, lot 78; BIB# 95477