beaker

Object NamePrunted Beaker

Made FromGlass

Date1300-1399

TechniqueBlown, applied ornament (tooling)

SizeOverall H: 12.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.4 cm; Foot Diam: 5.2 cm

Accession Number87.3.33

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants

Place Made

possibly Italy

Physical DescriptionYellowish, colorless glass with small bubbles; blown with applied ornament. Beaker shape; tall outsplayed rim with rounded lip; tapering wall with slightly concave profile; base with low conical kick; pontil mark. Applied ornament: thin horizontal trail at bottom of neck; thick horizontal trail at bottom of wall, tooled to form base ring with sixteen "toes", on which the vessel stands; between them, occupying whole of wall, four horizontal rows of elongated prunts arranged in quincunx, eight in each row.
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