Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.476
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.3 cm; Rim Diam: 7.2 cm; Foot Diam: 8.6
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1700
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
360 Image: 

Wineglass with A Penne

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Web Description: 
The wave-like pattern on this goblet was created by trailing a white glass thread around the clear glass. The thread was then “combed" to produce undulating lines.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1979
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
opaque white glass
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
applied decoration
tooling
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Conical bowl with rounded base decorated with trailed and feathered opaque white threading; joined by a merese to a mold-blown (12 ribs) ball knop and inverted baluster stem; attached by a glue bit a shallow blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. The stem is decorated with two ear-shaped attachments in blue glass with trailed colorless glass pincered into a series of waffle-patterned pads.

Publications (3)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 11; BIB# 716365
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 1; BIB# 149619
Baroque Influences on the Form and Decoration of Glass (2014) illustrated, p. 15; BIB# 142141

Multimedia (1)

Wineglass with A Penne
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