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trick glass

Object NameTrick Glass

Made FromBottle glass

Dateprobably 1700-1799

Techniquefree-blown, applied and tooled parts

SizeOverall H: 12.8 cm, Diam: 10 cm

Accession Number54.3.17

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Spain

Physical DescriptionTransparent very bubbly green glass (bottle glass); slight weathering; free-blown, with applied and tooled parts. Flat ovoid body with rough pontil mark and short cylindrical neck with thick overfolded ring-like rim; the body is covered with applied crudely crimped, pinched cross-notched heavy threads of a complicated design: the sides show from bottom to top a kind of shell, a broad horizontal bar with nipples, and a reversed shell, the side edges have a vertical crimped band with nipples, surmounted by square loop handles with elongated corners, attached at shoulder and neck.
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