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trick glass

Object NameTrick Glass
Made FromBottle glass
Dateprobably 1700-1799
Place MadeSpain
Techniquefree-blown, applied and tooled parts
SizeOverall H: 12.8 cm, Diam: 10 cm
Accession Number54.3.17
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
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.
Provenance
Former Collection Mrs. A. G. O'Higgins - 1954

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