cantir

Object NameDrinking Flask (Cantir)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1650-1750

Place MadeSpain, Catalonia

TechniqueBlown, mold-blown, applied

SizeOverall H: 40.3 cm, Diam (max): 19 cm

Accession Number54.3.143

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

A càntir has two spouts: a short one for filling and pouring, and a longer one through which the beverage is poured into the drinker’s mouth.

Physical DescriptionClear glass with small bubbles and impurities; free-blown and dip-molded, applied and tooled. Hollow conical foot with pushed-up base and rough pontil mark, ends in an angular knop, bowl tapers downwards and has a sloping cover-like top, composite handle-finial consists of oval ring attached to the bowl by a clamp and has incorporated white latticinio spirals, a stem surrounded by four triangular loops, and a bird-shaped top; the bowl has flat ribs swirling from right to left; applied decoration: three crimped pointed pieces at knop above foot, transparent blue and opaque white crimped crest-like threads form irregular spirals, semi-circles and rings on the bowl, a slender pointed and a short broad spout on the shoulder of the bowl, both having a blue pointed crimped piece at their bottom, the latter having a blue thick crimped rim, blue crimped crests on the ring-handle, blue and white crimped pieces with an impressed pattern on the bottom of the triangular loops; bird has a white crest and tail and blue wings.
Provenance

Source Nicolas de Koenigsberg - 1954

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