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Object Name:

Retort

Place Made:

possibly Northern Europe

Accession Number:

56.3.33

Dimensions:

Overall H: 43 cm; Body Diam: 20 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

probably 1700-1799

Primary Description:

Transparent bluish-greenish extremely bubbly glass; free-blown. Almost cylindrical body with large spout tapering towards orifice both forming a 6 (D. of glass at orifice ca. 1/4"), another small conical spout applied to the retort where body leads over to large spout; both orifices unworked.

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Department:

Science and Technology; Early Modern

Provenance:

Linares, Abelardo, Source

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Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

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Publications (5)

Exploring Ancient Distilling Technologies (2021) illustrated, p. 112; BIB# 764498

Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 13 (fig. 5); BIB# 149403

Psychedelic Mania: Stephen Rolfe Powell's Dance with Glass (2012) illustrated, p. 25, fig. 9; BIB# 130415

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 142, Fig. 2; BIB# 103865

Science Top Ten illustrated, p. 2;