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Object NameChristmas Ornament
Made FromNon-lead glass
Dateabout 1880-1910
Place Madeprobably Germany
Accession Number63.3.63-50
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glittering Traditions: Glass Holiday Ornaments from the Study Collection
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless, pink, blue non-lead glass; lampworked, assembled. Pink ring; with triple-knopped tube strung inside the ring, the tube with melon-ribbed knops at top and bottom, and a larger spherical knop between, mirrored inside, with a red-enameled segment on the upper ribbed knop; paneled hollow pale green ball tied below the ring, silvered inside; with two pendant strings with slender ovoid faceted beads, silvered inside, and faceted yellow, silver-stained baluster-shaped beads, and tiny spherical beads at the tips, all strung on pink thread; the pink thread also forming the hanger at the top.Provenance
Source
Rhena L. Heinz
- 1963
