Wineglass in "Persian" Pattern

Object Name: 
Wineglass in "Persian" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Wineglass in "Persian" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
98.4.278 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.1 cm; Rim Diam: 7 cm; Foot Diam: 6.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1882-1890
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Hamblen Trust of the Hamblen Family: Watt & Tallie Hamblen, Mary Margaret & Mattie Terry Hamblen
Primary Description: 
Wineglass in "Persian" pattern. Colorless and transparent light red glass; blown, cased, cut, polished. Cup-shaped bowl blown of colorless glass overlaid in red, cut in a pattern of fans, hobnails and criss-crossing lines, base of bowl cut in 6 flutes, applied knop, cut in facets, applied straight stem, cut in six vertical flutes, applied flat circular foot deeply cut in rays underneath, side of foot cut and polished

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Persian
Provenance: 
Hamblen Trust of the Hamblen Family, Source
1998-07-17
Category: 
Crystal City
Color: 
red
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cased glass
cutting
polishing
Material: 
lead glass
gold ruby glass

Publications (7)

Glass: A Short History (Smithsonian Books edition) (2012) illustrated, p. 100, left; BIB# 130360
Yi shu bo li he zhuang shi bo li (Artistic Glass and Decorative Glass) (2009) illustrated, p. 352, pl. 21 (fig. 16-7c); BIB# 166455
Splitting the Rainbow (2006-04) illustrated, p. 10;
Splitting the Rainbow: Cut Glass in Color -- Corning Museum -- Corning, New York (2006-04) illustrated, p. 76 (bottom); BIB# AI67941
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 54-55, #83, left; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 41 (1999) illustrated, p. 192, #28; BIB# AI43981
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1998 (1999) illustrated, p. 27; BIB# AI95009

Objects in Set (2)

Wineglass in "Persian" Pattern
Artist:T. G. Hawkes & Company
Date:1882-1890
Accession Number:98.4.278 A
2 Wineglasses in "Persian" Pattern
Artist:T. G. Hawkes & Company
Date:1882-1900
Accession Number:98.4.278