cordial glass
Object NameFlute-Cordial or Ratafia Glass
Maker
Workshop of the Beilby Family
Made FromLead Glass
Dateabout 1765-1770
Place MadeEngland, Newcastle upon Tyne
TechniqueBlown, applied, molded, enameled, gilded
SizeOverall H: 18.5 cm; Rim Diam: 5 cm; Foot Diam: 7.25 cm
Accession Number50.2.69
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Title Unknown (Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
Title Unknown (Rich's)
East Side Winter Antiques Show
The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionFlute-Cordial or Ratafia Glass. Colorless lead glass with opaque white twists; blown, applied, molded in 10-rib mold and ribs twisted slightly to right. Slender flute-shape bowl, applied straight stem with central opaque white gauze-twist within pair of tape spirals, applied slightly sloping foot with plain rim, rough pontil mark; bowl decorated in colored enamels: scrolled-leaf circlet just below gilded rim; vertical string of graduated light blue beads between ribs.Provenance
Source
Steuben Glass, Inc.
(American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01
Former Collection
Harvey Hadden
