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Object NameDrinking Flask (Cantir)

Made FromGlass

Date1700-1799

TechniqueBlown, vetro a fili, applied

SizeOverall H: about 27.5 cm; Foot Diam (max): 8.5 cm

Accession Number50.3.35

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine

Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

This is a typical Spanish vessel for drinking water or wine.

Place Made

Spain, Catalonia

Physical DescriptionDrinking Flask (Cantir). Colorless glass with olive tinge, bubbles and seeds; opaque white lattimo threads; blue glass; blown, vetro a fili, applied. Funnel-shaped body with rounded shoulder, lower part shaped into a hollow flattened knop and integral foot with rough pontil mark. Orifice on top serves as support for ribbed, twisted rod that is shaped into a ring handle, and is further held in place by a coarse, pinched thread. Two applied and vertically pulled spouts on opposite sides of shoulder; one is shorter, with wider opening strengthened by applied and cast-off thread; the other taller, attenuated, with broken off rim. To both spouts, shoulder, and ring applied and cast off six blue prunts, pinched coarsely into blossom shapes. On top of ring, solid support for small blue bird. Body decorated with spiral lattimo threads, partly deformed by spouts. Blue glass in particular is very bubbly. Lattimo threads don't reach apex of foot. The whole treatment of the vessel is very rough and yet well proportioned.
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