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Object NameWineglass (vetro a retortoli)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1550-1610

Place MadeItaly, Venice

TechniqueBlown, applied

SizeOverall H: 13.8 cm; Rim Diam (max): 15.5 cm; Foot Diam (max): 7.8 cm

Accession Number51.3.119

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

2300 Degrees: The Glass Experience

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Physical DescriptionWineglass (vetro a retortoli). Colorless glass, grayish, white canes; blown, applied. Shallow bowl joined by wide merese of colorless glass to blown stem composed of annular knop between disks, atop inverted baluster; this is joined, by colorless capstan shaped element worked on its lower end, to slightly irregular shallow, blown pedestal foot with pontil mark. Bowl, stem, and foot are all decorated, probably from same parison, with series of three colorless bands alternating with single twisted cable of six strands of opaque white glass. All three sections show 12 repetitions of filigrana decoration. Filigree canes of bowl and foot end in straight shear mark.
Provenance

Source Mrs. Harry Hillyer Brigham - 1951-01-31

Former Collection Mannheim Collection - 1910
paris, sold 1910

Former Collection Harry Hillyer Brigham