Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
possibly Spain
Accession Number: 
63.3.46
Dimensions: 
overall H: 14.2 cm, D (rim): (max) 12.35 cm; D (foot): 7.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1575-1625
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Yves Henry Buhler
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with slight green-greyish tinge and some seeds; blown. Uneven, conical bowl with flaring, fire-polished rim, folded in the fazzoletto method. Attenuating, hollow blown stem joined directly to bowl, and, with an avolio, to blown, shallow foot with infolded edge and rough pontil mark. Rim has been torn in one place, leaving long lenticular slit.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Buhler, Yves Henry, Source
1963

Exhibitions (1)

El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2008-04-13 through 2008-07-27
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2008-08-22 through 2008-11-09

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619