Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
51.2.162
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.6 cm; Top Diam: 6.6 cm; Foot Diam: 8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1740-1760
Primary Description: 
Colorless, presumably lead glass; blown and engraved. Large bucket bowl, applied rod-like stem with paired "mercury" corkscrew air-twist, applied large sloping circular foot with plain rim and rough pontil mark; wide circlet of tiny oranges and leaves engraved below rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1951-04-11
Bles, Joseph, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved

Exhibitions (1)

The Story of English Glass
Venue(s)
Montclair Art Museum 1956
Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse 1956
Wenham Historical Association and Museum 1956
Berea College 1958
Coe College 1958
Oneonta State Teachers College 1958
Paine Art Center and Arboretum 1958
Suffolk Museum 1958
Loeb Art Center 1959
Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1960
Birmingham Museum of Art 1960
Community Savings Bank 1960
Huntington Galleries 1960
Atlanta Art Association 1962
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery 1962
Columbia Museum of Art 1962
Georgia Museum of Art 1962
North Carolina State College Union 1962
URI Memorial Union 1962

Publications (3)

Glass Relating to William III (1973) illustrated, p. 118, fig. 20;
English, Scottish, and Irish Table Glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (1956) pl. 167; BIB# 25354
English, Scottish, and Irish Table Glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (1956) pl. 167; BIB# 19945

Multimedia (1)

Air Twist Stem
Video