Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands, Dordrecht
Accession Number: 
79.3.290
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 24 cm; Rim Diam: 9.1 cm; Foot Diam: 10.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1746
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, stipple engraved. Large, round funnel bowl with diamond-stippled decoration of a large baroque urn at the left, alongside a column, a rooster, hen, pea-hen, crested bird, peacock, two ducks, and a flying bird are depicted at the right, in front of a distant landscape with a steeple and a tree; signed (in diamond point script) "F. Greenwood fecit./ 1746." on the reverse; tall stem composed of a short plain section with angular knop, above a multi-teared inverted baluster with basal ball knop; conical foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Stipple Engraved
Inscription: 
Frans Greenwood, 1746
Signature and date

Exhibitions (2)

One Dot at a Time
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1983-04-21 through 1983-05-14
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
 

Publications (4)

English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, pp. 313-314, pl. IX; BIB# AI7962
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 109, #35; BIB# AI9181
Glass Drinking Vessels in the Collection of Jerome Strauss (1957) pp. 46, 47, fig. 12; BIB# AI55441
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, p. 99, #246; BIB# 27783