wine glass

Object NameCovered Wineglass

Maker Glasshouse of the Brothers Bonhomm

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Date1650-1700

Place MadeLow Countries; probably Southern Netherlands; perhaps Belgium, Liege

Techniqueblown, pattern-molded

SizeH: (a&b) 30.1 cm, (a) H: 20.5 cm, diam (rim): 7.6 cm (foot): 8.9 cm; (b) H: 10.6 cm, diam: 8.2 cm

Accession Number79.3.415

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless glass with very slight greyish tinge, bubbles, and seeds, mold-blown, applied. Funnel bowl with furnace-opened rim and rounded base, lower part blown a mezza stampaura with spiked gadrooning (12 ribs). Composite stem: two hollow-blown pear-shaped knops with 16 ribs separated by three avolios with well articulated mereses, with hollowness of lower knop pulled into the bottom avolio. Blown foot with infolded edge and rough pontil mark. Two ear-shaped wings attached to knops, with applied zipper that is drawn out in its lower part into an angular form. Domed, flanged cover, blown a mezza stampaura with 12 spiked ribs and very smooth pontil mark inside. Finial, joined by a merese and disc, composed of hollow-blown dumb-bell with 16 ribs, with solid ball knop on top, and two attached wings, which correspond to wings on goblet.
Provenance

Source Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation - 1979

Former Collection Henry Brown (English)