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Object NameDrinking Vessel in the Shape of a Pistol
Made FromGlass
Date1608
Place MadeGermany
TechniqueFree-blown, enameled, applied tooled parts
SizeL: 34.3 cm
Accession Number53.3.25
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionTransparent dark blue glass with some minute and small bubbles and sand impurities; wear marks; free-blown and enameled, with applied tooled parts. The pistol has big knob at one end with an applied prunt with an impressed blossom, two similar prunts are applied, as well as a trigger and a "pistollock"; the mouth of the barrel is unworked; the prunts and the lock are gilt, and surrounded by either (white leaves or dots; the top of the pistol is partly dark turquoise blue with brown lines and the date 1608, surrounded by white and yellow figure which refers to a technical part of the pistol, and by white, brown and green circles with brown lines; at the bottom a brown ribbon.Provenance
Source
A. Vecht
1703
about 1730
about 1860-1880
about 1730-1750