cantir

Object NameCantir

Made FromGlass

Date1700-1799

Place MadeSpain

Techniquefree-blown, applied, tooled

SizeOverall H: 24.5 cm

Accession Number51.3.236

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionCantir. Pale amber glass with some iridescence and patina on inside and with cobalt blue trim; free-blown, with applied and tooled decoration. Inverted pear-shaped body tapering to large knop-like bulge above applied small conical foot with narrow underfolded hollow rim and small pontil mark; slender vertical tube drinking-spout with wide opening into body at shoulder and opposite large filling-spout; at center top, applied ring handle with stemmed bird-finial and, along sides, blue cockscombs; applied blue cockscombs along edge of shoulder on sides and amber cockscombs flanking bases of spouts and continuing halfway down body; blue color on lip of filling-spout.
Provenance

Source Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC - 1951-05-02

Former Collection Maurice Bompard (French, b. 1857)

Former Collection Mrs. Russell C. Veit

Former Collection Russell C. Veit