Jug

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Object Name: 
Jug
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
50.3.8
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.5 cm; Rim W: 7.6 cm, D: 7.8 cm; Foot Diam: 4.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1675-1725
Primary Description: 
Jug. Deep yellow-green, yellow, and colorless non-lead glass; blown, diamond-point engraved, applied, tooled. Bulbous body of yellow-green glass with rounded shoulder; narrow neck flaring widely to applied yellow threadlike rim; long, pinched lip; applied scroll handle of colorless glass with finely crimped comb; applied foot-ring of colorless glass; pontil mark on base. Upper body and neck decorated with diamond-point engraving of scrolled leaf sprays and dots.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Category: 
Renaissance
Baroque
Color: 
yellow
green
colorless
Technique: 
deep yellow green
tooling
applied decoration
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (2)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 46; BIB# 149619
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) illustrated, pp. 94-95, #98; BIB# 63296