Pineapple Stand

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Object Name: 
Pineapple Stand
Place Made: 
Ireland
Accession Number: 
2009.2.34
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.3 cm; Foot Diam: 20.8 cm; Rim Diam: 16.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1820
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown and elaborately cut pineapple stand, tooled, polished; eleven-sided step-cut shallow bowl with everted rim and scalloped edge, over a short octagonal stem section and stepped foot over a wide flat solid circular base cut on the underside with radiating fan-shaped leaves with alternate stylized pineapples filled with diamonds.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Bonhams, Source
2009-12-21
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown
cutting
tooling
polishing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Fine British and European glass; Paperweights (2009) illustrated, #115; BIB# 112740