Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
probably Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
86.3.106
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.1 cm, Diam (rim): 8.7 cm; Diam (foot): 8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1660
Credit Line: 
Gift of Peter Wain
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless, with yellowish tinge. Blown, mold-blown. Conical, mold-blown bowl with fire-polished rim, attached by merese and glue-bit to flattened blown ball knop that is directly set on shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. Bowl is decorated with pattern of small diamonds above ribbing.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Wain, Peter, Source
Color: 
yellow
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 1, 50; BIB# 149619