bowl
Object NameCup or Bowl with Handle
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1200-1299
TechniqueBlown, trailed, marvered, applied, dragged
SizeOverall H: 4 cm, Diam (max): 7.1 cm
Accession Number79.1.118
Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Not On View
Physical DescriptionCup or Bowl with Handle. Transparent purple, with opaque turquoise and white trails. Blown; trailed, dragged, marvered, and applied. Roughly hemispherical. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall curves out and down to mid-point, then in; base plain, very slightly concave; pontil mark circular (D. 1.1 cm). Very small handle dropped onto wall just below mid-point, drawn out, up, and in, and attached to upper wall. Decoration: turquoise trail applied to top and outside of rim and wound, very thinly, about six times around top 0.7 cm of wall; white trail applied to center of base, wound five or six times around base and 11 times around wall from bottom to 1.1 cm below rim; lowest eight revolutions on wall have been dragged diagonally to produce ribbon-like effect of adjoining lozenges.Provenance
Source
Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
- 1979-03-25
Former Collection
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978)
