Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
79.2.120
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.3 cm; Rim Diam: 5.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1765-1770
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless lead glass; blown, applied, cut, enameled. Small tapered bowl, with an enameled urn in a landscape setting on the side; panel cutting on the base of the bowl, merging into diamond-cutting on the stem, and merging into panel cutting on the foot; polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1979-03-22
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
enameling
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (3)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 19 (fig. 7);
Baroque Influences on the Form and Decoration of Glass (2014) illustrated, p. 70; BIB# 142141
The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby, 1761-1778 (1980) illustrated, p. 8 (#15); BIB# 22578