Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
2000.3.11
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.8 cm; Rim Diam: 11.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1575-1625
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless, with grayish tinge. Blown; tooled. Bowl shaped as two knops rising to widely flaring, fire-polished rim; attached by merese to twisted blown stem with knop 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
tooling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17

Publications (5)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 11; BIB# 716365
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 59, 63; BIB# 149619
Yi shu bo li he zhuang shi bo li (Artistic Glass and Decorative Glass) (2009) illustrated, pl. 13 (fig. 12-2, left); BIB# 166455
Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 200, fig. 15; BIB# AI53002
An Important Collection of Venetian and Facon deVenise Glass, sale #6272 (2000-03-28) p. 40, lot 85; BIB# 95477