Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
66.3.64
Dimensions: 
H: 20.6 cm, D (top): 8.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1801-1963
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless, white, green, and gold non-lead glass; blown. Bell- shaped bowl with criss-crossed white, green, and "gold stone" threads, a tiny bubble captured at each intersection; capstan above a gold-flecked ball knop, a capstan, and a hollow gold-flecked inverted baluster; folded foot matching the bowl; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Color: 
Colorless, white, green, gold
colorless
white
green
Technique: 
blown

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 62; BIB# 149619