Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.453
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.4 cm; Rim Diam: 16.9 cm; Foot Diam: 10.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1575-1650
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless. Blown, mold-blown; tooled. Shallow bowl with fire-polished rim; joined by merese to inverted-baluster stem surmounted by ball knop, both of which are mold-blown (16 ribs) and twisted; attached by glue-bit [capstan?] to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
Morgan, J. Pierpont (American, 1937-1913), Former Collection
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
façon de Venise
tooling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

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

Multimedia (1)

Tazza
Video