Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
50.2.70
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.75 cm; Rim Diam: 6.5 cm; Foot Diam: 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1765-1770
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Colorless lead glass with opaque white twists; blown, applied, with white enameled decoration. Round-funnel bowl, applied straight-stem with pair of opaque white slender thread-spirals at center within single multi-ply tape spiral, applied sloping circular foot with plain rim, rough pontil mark; bowl decorated on one side in white enamel: classic funeral urn in landscape setting.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Hadden, Harvey, Former Collection
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
opaque white glass
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (3)

East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
Title Unknown (Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
Venue(s)
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1948-11 through 1948-11
 
Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10

Publications (2)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 19 (fig. 7);
Beilby Glass in America Including Some Recent Discoveries (1951-06) fig. IV; BIB# AI46083