Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
2000.3.14
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18 cm; Rim Diam: 10.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1700
360 Image: 

Wineglass with Flameworked Flowers

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Primary Description: 
Winged Goblet. Colorless, with grayish brown tinge; translucent turquoise blue, lattimo, yellow. Blown, mold-blown; applied, tooled. Bucket-shaped bowl with flaring, fire-polished rim, and flat base with applied wavy band on perimeter; attached by merese and glue-bit to mold-blown stem consisting of four flattened and graduated (largest on top) ball knops atop inverted baluster; joined by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark. Stem is decorated with two ear-shaped and zigzag wings of blue glass, with trailed-on and pincered colorless glass mirroring zigzag shape of blue glass and pulled down toward foot as “legs.” Two flowers with seven curved petals of opaque white glass and yellow-topped pistils are applied to second ball knop between wings. Ring, gilded with gold leaf, applied to underside of foot about 0.6 cm inside rim.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Christie's, Paris, Source
2000-03-28
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 11; BIB# 716365
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 1; BIB# 149619
Online Resource Reveals Mysteries of Venetian Glassmaking Techniques (2016) illustrated, p. 301 (right); BIB# AI102873
Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 201, fig. 18; BIB# AI53002