Spoon

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Object Name: 
Spoon
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
2000.3.4
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 4.4 cm, L: 20 cm, Th: 2.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1625
Primary Description: 
Spoon. Colorless, with brownish tinge. Blown; applied, tooled. Oval bowl attached to solid cylindrical stem; rattail on bottom of bowl; stamped prunt at join of bowl and stem, and oval with prunt on top of end of handle.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Christie's, Paris, Source
2000-03-28
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
applied
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001) illustrated, p. 68; BIB# 68214
Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 200, fig. 16, front; BIB# AI53002
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2000 (2001) illustrated, p. 8, right; BIB# AI98331
An Important Collection of Venetian and Facon deVenise Glass, sale #6272 (2000-03-28) illustrated, p. 9, lot 13; BIB# 95477