Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
74.3.163
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.7 cm, D (rim): 8 cm, D (foot): 8.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1699
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless. Blown, mold-blown; applied, tooled. Conical bowl with fire-polished rim, encircled with applied thread three times at two-thirds height, and with “spiky” gadrooning on second gather around bowl’s lower half; joined by merese to hollow stem—with pattern of twists and 16 [Florian to check number.] ribs (blown in optic mold)—consisting of four flattened ball knops and tapered section at bottom; stem is attached by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1974
Color: 
colorless
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
applied decoration
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 55a; BIB# 149619
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) pp. 96-97, no. 103; BIB# 63296