sweetmeat glass

Object NameSweetmeat glass

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Date1725-1750

Techniqueblown, mold-blown, enameled, gilt

SizeH: 11.8 cm, W (rim): 9.7 cm, D (foot): 7.2 cm

Accession Number79.3.1059

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Bohemia; Silesia

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, mold-blown, enameled, gilt. Lobed, cup-shaped bowl, with four wide lobes alternating with four narrower ones; band of red-brown and blue enameling against gilding, to form a border of stylized gilt leaves, flanked by two rows of white dots, with pendant red-brown shells and rows of three blue dots; stem composed of two mereses above an inverted baluster with basal swelling; conical foot; rough pontil mark.
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