holy water font

Object NameHoly Water Font

Made FromGlass

Date1700-1799

Place Madepossibly Low Countries; possibly France

TechniquePattern-molded, free-blown, applied, tooled

SizeOverall H: 25.5 cm

Accession Number51.3.199

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Physical DescriptionHoly Water Font. Colorless glass and latticinio cane with opaque white and red twist; pattern-molded and free-blown fount, applied and tooled decoration on wall-back. Elaborate wall-back: heart and cross formed from rope-ribbed colorless cane with opaque-white and red-twist core; colorless glass of near triangular shape (perhaps intended to represent the figure of a saint) set in at top of heart; along sides of heart and "figure", applied beaded fins; fount, attached at point of heart and supported at sides by two beaded finned arms: small conical bowl with sides spreading from stemmed ball at bottom to wide bulge below a flaring rim; pattern of vertical ribbing.
Provenance

Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978) - 1951-01-19