Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
63.3.12
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.3 cm, D (rim): 8 cm, D (foot): 8.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1600-1699
Primary Description: 
Wineglass. Cristallo. Blown, mold-blown; applied, tooled. Wineglass. Conical bowl with fire-polished rim, encircled with applied thread three times at two-thirds height. Second gather applied to lower half of bowl and molded with spiky gadrooning; joined by merese to inverted baluster stem surmounted by ball knop, both of which are mold-blown (16 ribs) and twisted; stem is attached by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Henrich, Wilhelm, Source
1963-01-28
Color: 
colorless
cristallo
Technique: 
applied decoration
tooling
mold-blowing
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 29, 31, #39; BIB# 28036
Recent Important Acquisitions, 6 (1964) illustrated, pp. 162-163, #30; BIB# AI97744