Kuttrolf

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Object Name: 
Kuttrolf
Place Made: 
Italy, probably Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.210
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.1 cm, Diam (max): 12.1 cm; Foot Diam: 8.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1575-1625
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Kuttrolf. Colorless, with grayish tinge; opaque white. Blown; applied, tooled. Kuttrolf. Body with compressed spherical shape. Second gather applied to body, ending near neck, into which were partly melted 22 vertical segments of opaque white twisted rods standing in relief; three tubes twisted around one vertical central tube; curved neck ends in cup shaped top with pinched spout with trailed white rim; folded pedestal foot in vetro a retorti with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
opaque white glass
gray
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
hot-working
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23

Publications (5)

Baroque Influences on the Form and Decoration of Glass (2014) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# 142141
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 100-101, pl. 42; BIB# 33819
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980) pp. 100-101, pl. 42; BIB# 20953
Le Nouveau Musee du verre a Corning (1980) pp. 52-59, ill. p. 56, #8;
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, p. 56, #142; BIB# 27783